Test 6 · ★★ · Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and gi…

«a whole hill of aspens and you're telling me it's one tree?? no way» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, whole hill, way · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: aspens, me, one tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	_	15 tree	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hill	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hill	amod
4	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 aspens	case
6	aspens	aspen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hill	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 telling	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 telling	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 telling	aux
10	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 aspens	acl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 telling	iobj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tree	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tree	cop
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 tree	nummod
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	??	??	PUNCT	_	18 way	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	obl:unmarked
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 way	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 right	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 right	cop
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	acl:relcl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 tree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	you	aspens not said here	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	a whole hill of aspens	one tree		no way obl:unmarked	tree rules
3	is	present	no way			right 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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, but only in fairy tales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 tales	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 tales	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 tales	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tales	case
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tales	compound
7	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, the trunks can share one root system and the same genes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 share	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trunks	det
4	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 share	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 share	aux
6	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 system	nummod
8	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 system	compound
9	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 share	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 genes	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 genes	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 genes	amod
13	genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 system	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	can	the trunks	one root system and the same genes					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, every trunk is always a separate plant, grown from its own seed

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 plant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 trunk	det
4	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plant	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 plant	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 plant	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plant	det
8	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plant	amod
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grown	punct
11	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 plant	acl
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 seed	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 seed	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seed	amod
15	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	every trunk	a separate plant				always property	tree rules
2	grow	participle		a separate plant not said here				from trunk's own seed	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from seed=Patient

Option 4

No, aspens only grow alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 aspens	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	aspens	aspen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	aspens					alone property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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