Test 7 · ★★ · Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and gi…

«my nan's book says the mother tree loves her babies and feeds them sugar. true or made up?» What is best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: book, mother tree · What happens: say, love, feed, make up, be · To what, where: babies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: «my nan's book says the mother tree loves her babies and feeds them sugar. true or made up?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 book	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 nan	case
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loves	nsubj
10	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 babies	nmod:poss
12	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 loves	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 feeds	cc
14	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 loves	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 feeds	obj
16	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feeds	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 loves	parataxis
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 true	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 made	compound:prt
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 loves	punct
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: ask in a quote	present	my nan's book		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love in a quote	present	the mother tree	tree's babies	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus
3	feed in a quote	present	the mother tree not said here	babies = baby	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient sugar=Theme
4	make up in a quote	participle	the mother tree not said here		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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 best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

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

Some scientists think big trees pass sugar to young ones, but «love» is a human word

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 scientists	det
2	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trees	amod
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pass	nsubj
6	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
7	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pass	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 ones	case
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pass	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 word	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 word	cc
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 love	punct
14	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 word	nsubj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 love	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 word	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 word	det
18	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 word	amod
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	some scientists			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	pass	present	big trees	sugar	young ones	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme to one=Recipient
3	is a	present	love	a human word		tree rules

Option 2

True, and the babies thank her too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thank	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thank	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 thank	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 babies	det
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thank	nsubj
6	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thank	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	6 thank	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present	the babies		her = she				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

All true, trees love their babies and feel sad for them just like people do

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 true	det
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 love	nsubj
5	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 true	parataxis
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 babies	nmod:poss
7	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 love	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feel	cc
9	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 love	conj
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feel	xcomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sad	obl
13	just	just	ADV	_	16 do	advmod
14	like	like	SCONJ	_	16 do	mark
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 do	nsubj
16	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 feel	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	love	present	trees	trees's babies		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus
2	feel	present	trees not said here		sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	do	present	people			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

All made up, trees never share anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 trees	det
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 trees	amod
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 share	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 share	advmod
7	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	participle							vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	not share	present	all made trees	anything					tree rules

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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