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Test 3 · ★★ · Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and gi…

A giraffe eats from one acacia, then walks a long way upwind to the next. Why might that be clever?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: giraffe, that · What happens: eat, walk, be · To what, where: one acacia, long way, next

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: A giraffe eats from one acacia, then walks a long way upwind to the next.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 giraffe	det
2	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eats	nsubj
3	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 acacia	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 acacia	nummod
6	acacia	acacia	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eats	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 walks	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 walks	advmod
9	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eats	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 way	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 way	amod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walks	obj
13	upwind	upwind	ADV	_	9 walks	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 next	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 next	det
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 walks	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	a giraffe			one acacia			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from acacia=Source
2	walk	present	a giraffe not said here	a long way		the next	then	upwind property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme to next=Trajectory

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: Why might that be clever?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 clever	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 clever	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 clever	cop
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	that					clever property	tree rules

The options

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

Trees upwind may not have smelled the warning gas yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smelled	nsubj
2	upwind	upwind	ADV	_	6 smelled	advmod
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 smelled	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 smelled	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 smelled	aux
6	smelled	smell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gas	det
8	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gas	compound
9	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smelled	obj
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 smelled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not smell	may · perfect	Trees	the warning gas			yet	upwind property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gas=Stimulus

Option 2

Giraffes like the wind on their face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 wind	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giraffes	nmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 face	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wind	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Upwind trees are always taller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upwind	upwind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 trees	amod
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 taller	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 taller	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 taller	advmod
5	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 4

The wind blows the leaves straight into its mouth so it eats more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blows	nsubj
3	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blows	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 mouth	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mouth	nmod:poss
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blows	obl
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 eats	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eats	nsubj
12	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 blows	conj
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 eats	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	the wind	the leaves		wind's mouth			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent leaf=Material into mouth=Product
2	eat	present	wind						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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