Test 1 · ★★ · Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and gi…

«trees literally text each other through mushrooms, saw it on TikTok» What is the fairest answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trees, fairest answer · What happens: text, see, be · To what, where: each, mushrooms, it, TikTok · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 252 «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones» 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	_	4 text	punct
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 text	nsubj
3	literally	literally	ADV	_	4 text	advmod
4	text	text	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 text	obj
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 mushrooms	case
8	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 text	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 text	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 TikTok	case
13	TikTok	TikTok	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 saw	parataxis
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 What	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 answer	det
18	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 answer	amod
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 What	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 text	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	text in a quote	present	trees	each	mushrooms	literally property	tree rules
2	see in a quote	past		it	TikTok		tree rules
3	is a	present	the fairest 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

Yes, and they use the forest's wifi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 use	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 use	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wifi	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 forest	case
9	wifi	wifi	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	they	the forest's wifi					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wifi=Patient

Option 2

Yes, trees send real words to each other along their roots, just like phone calls to friends

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 send	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 send	nsubj
4	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 send	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 send	obl
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed
10	along	along	ADP	_	12 roots	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 roots	nmod:poss
12	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 send	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 calls	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	17 calls	advmod
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 calls	case
16	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 calls	compound
17	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 roots	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 friends	case
19	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 calls	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	trees	real words		each		along trees's roots and phone calls to friends	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to each=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fungus threads link trees and may pass sugar and signals, but how much is still debated

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threads	compound
2	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 link	nsubj
3	link	link	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 link	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pass	cc
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pass	aux
7	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 link	conj
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pass	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 signals	cc
10	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sugar	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 debated	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 debated	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 debated	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 debated	aux:pass
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 debated	advmod
17	debated	debate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 link	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	link	present	Fungus threads	trees		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
2	pass	may	Fungus threads not said here	sugar and signals		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sugar=Trajectory
3	debate	present · passive		much	still	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, fungi and trees never touch at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 fungi	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	fungi	fungus	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 touch	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 trees	cc
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fungi	conj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 touch	advmod
7	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 touch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	present	fungi and trees			all			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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