Test 8 · The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy

«we cut down the forest and the rain'll still come, it's the tropics innit» What is the clever answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: we, rain · What happens: cut down, come, be · To what, where: forest, tropics innit, clever answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 2 «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 cut	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rain	det
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cut	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 innit	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 innit	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 innit	det
17	tropics	tropic	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 innit	compound
18	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 cut	obj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 answer	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 answer	det
23	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 answer	amod
24	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 What	acl:relcl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cut down in a quote	past	we	the forest		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset forest=Beneficiary what=Product
2	come in a quote	future	the rain		still	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	rain	the tropics innit		tree rules
4	be speech: assert	present		the clever answer		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The trees make much of the rain, so cutting them can make it drier

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 rain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rain	det
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 much	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 make	advmod
10	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 make	csubj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cutting	obj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	drier	dry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	the trees	much of the rain		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset much=Product
2	cut	gerund		trees = tree		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
3	make	can	cutting	rain	dry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 2

Yes, rain never changes in the tropics

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 rain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changes	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 changes	advmod
5	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 tropics	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tropics	det
8	tropics	tropic	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present	rain			the tropics			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Rain comes only from the sea, so the trees do not matter at all for it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 sea	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 matter	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 matter	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 matter	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 matter	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 matter	advmod
13	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 comes	parataxis
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 matter	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Rain			the sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location
2	not matter	present · do-support	the trees			all		for Rain	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Cutting trees makes it rain more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 makes	csubj
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cutting	obj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund		trees					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product
2	make	present	Cutting	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary rain=Product

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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