Test 10 · Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of…

Why would a broad oak leaf be a problem in a frozen winter?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: broad oak leaf · What happens: be, freeze · To what, where: problem

This is test 10 of lesson 251 «Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 problem	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 problem	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 leaf	det
4	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leaf	amod
5	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaf	compound
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 problem	nsubj
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 problem	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 problem	det
9	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 winter	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 winter	det
12	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 winter	amod
13	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 problem	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 problem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	a broad oak leaf	a problem			winter		tree rules
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

It would catch too much sunlight in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 catch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sunlight	amod
6	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 winter	case
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	It	much sunlight			winter		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would make too much food in the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 snow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snow	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	It	much food		the snow			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material food=Product

Option 3

It would freeze into a solid block of ice and explode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 freeze	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 freeze	aux
3	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 block	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 block	det
6	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 block	amod
7	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freeze	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 ice	case
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 block	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 explode	cc
11	explode	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 freeze	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	would	It			a solid block of ice			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	explode	infinitive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would lose water the roots cannot replace from frozen ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roots	det
6	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 replace	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 replace	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 replace	advmod
9	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lose	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ground	amod
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replace	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lose	would	It	water		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality
2	not replace	can	the roots		frozen ground	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
3	freeze	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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