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Test 11 · ★★ · Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and gi…

«found a stump in the woods with green stuff growing round the cut, but there's no leaves. how?» What is likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: green stuff · What happens: find, grow, be · To what, where: stump, woods · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: «found a stump in the woods with green stuff growing round the cut, but there's no leaves. how?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stump	det
4	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 woods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woods	det
7	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 stuff	case
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stuff	amod
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 woods	nmod
11	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stuff	acl
12	round	round	ADP	_	14 cut	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cut	det
14	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 growing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 's	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 's	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 's	expl
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 how	cop
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 leaves	det
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 's	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 's	punct
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 found	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a stump		the woods with green stuff			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stump=Topic
2	grow in a quote	gerund	green stuff not said here					round the cut	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	present						how property	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.

Sentence 2: What is likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	cop
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						likely property	tree rules

The options

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

Its roots may be joined to nearby trees that feed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 roots	nmod:poss
2	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 joined	nsubj:pass
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 joined	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 joined	aux:pass
5	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 trees	case
7	nearby	nearby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trees	amod
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 joined	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 feed	nsubj
10	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 trees	acl:relcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	may · passive		Its roots				to nearby trees	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to tree=Co-Patient
2	feed	present	nearby trees	it					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

It makes food from the dark soil

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 soil	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soil	det
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soil	amod
7	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	food		the dark soil			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from soil=Material

Option 3

It is a fake stump made of plastic

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	5 stump	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stump	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stump	det
4	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stump	amod
5	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stump	acl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 plastic	case
8	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a fake stump					tree rules
2	make	participle		a fake stump not said here				of plastic	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4

It is eating the moss growing on its top

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 eating	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eating	aux
3	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moss	det
5	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eating	obj
6	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 eating	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 top	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 top	nmod:poss
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · progressive	It	the moss					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moss=Patient
2	grow	gerund				moss's top			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location

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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