Test 6 · Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees

What would happen if a scientist found a beam with rings in an old house and matched the pattern to dated trees?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: scientist · What happens: happen, find, match · To what, where: beam, pattern

This is test 6 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 found	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 scientist	det
6	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 beam	det
9	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 rings	case
11	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 beam	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 house	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 house	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 house	amod
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rings	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 matched	cc
17	matched	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pattern	det
19	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 matched	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 trees	case
21	dated	dated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 trees	amod
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 matched	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find a condition, not said to happen	past	a scientist	a beam	with rings in a old house	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beam=Topic
3	match	past	a scientist not said here	the pattern	to dated trees	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient to tree=Co-Patient

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

She could tell roughly when the tree was cut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	3 tell	advmod
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 cut	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	aux:pass
9	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	She					roughly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cut	past · passive		the tree					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

She could tell nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 tell	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	She	nothing		all			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient

Option 3

She could tell what colour the house was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 colour	det
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	She					tell property	tree rules

Option 4

She could tell exactly who had built the house and when

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 who	advmod
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 built	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 built	aux
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tell	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 when	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	She						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	build	past · perfect · passive		the house					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary house=Product

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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