Test 3 · Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees

«my bonsai is a baby tree, special mini sort innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bonsai, special mini sort innit · What happens: be · To what, where: baby tree

This is test 3 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 tree	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bonsai	nmod:poss
3	bonsai	bonsai	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tree	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
9	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 innit	amod
10	mini	mini	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 innit	amod
11	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 innit	compound
12	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 innit	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	my bonsai	a baby tree and special mini sort innit					tree rules
2	is	present	special mini sort innit					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is an ordinary tree kept small by cutting, it could grow big in the ground

The tree, 16 words

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 tree	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tree	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
4	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tree	acl
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kept	xcomp
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 cutting	mark
9	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 kept	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grow	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grow	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 grow	aux
13	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tree	parataxis
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grow	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a ordinary tree			tree rules
2	keep	participle		a ordinary tree not said here		small property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	cut	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	grow	could	tree		the ground	big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Location

Option 2

Yes, they come from a tiny forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 forest	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 forest	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 forest	amod
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	they			a tiny forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial_Location

Option 3

Yes, bonsai are a special tiny kind of tree that grows in the wild in Japan

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 bonsai	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bonsai	bonsai	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kind	det
6	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kind	amod
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kind	amod
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 tree	case
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kind	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 grows	nsubj
12	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kind	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wild	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wild	det
15	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grows	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 Japan	case
17	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bonsai	a special tiny kind				of tree	tree rules
2	grow	present	a special tiny kind			the wild		in Japan	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location

Option 4

No, bonsai are plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 bonsai	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	bonsai	bonsai	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plastic	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plastic	cop
5	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	bonsai					plastic property	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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