Test 11 · Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees

Why do gardeners buying Wollemi pines help the wild ones?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: gardeners · What happens: buy, help · To what, where: Wollemi pines, wild ones

This is test 11 of lesson 253 «Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 help	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 help	aux
3	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 help	nsubj
4	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 gardeners	acl
5	Wollemi	Wollemi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pines	compound
6	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buying	obj
7	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ones	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 help	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	gerund	gardeners not said here	Wollemi pines					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pine=Theme
2	help	present · do-support	gardeners	the wild ones					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fewer people go looking for the secret wild trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 go	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 trees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
7	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Fewer people						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	gerund	Fewer people not said here					for the secret wild trees	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tree=Theme

Option 2

The garden trees send their seeds back to the wild ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trees	compound
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	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 seeds	nmod:poss
6	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 send	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 send	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 ones	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ones	det
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send back	present	the garden trees	trees's seeds	the wild ones				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seed=Theme to one=Destination

Option 3

The wild trees need gardeners to come and water them every summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 water	cc
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 summer	det
12	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	the wild trees	gardeners					tree rules
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	gardeners not said here	trees = tree			summer		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It somehow makes the wild trees in the gorge grow faster

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 makes	nsubj
2	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	3 makes	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trees	amod
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 gorge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gorge	det
9	gorge	gorge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obl
10	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	conj
11	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the wild trees		the gorge		somehow property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material tree=Product
2	grow	present						fast 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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