Test 8 · Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees

«saw a big tree in Kolkata, like 1000s of trunks, must be loads of trees» What is it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tree · What happens: see, be · To what, where: big tree, Kolkata, loads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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	_	2 saw	punct
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Kolkata	case
7	Kolkata	Kolkata	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 1000s	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 1000s	case
10	1000s	1000	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	2 saw	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 trunks	case
12	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 1000s	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 loads	punct
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 loads	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 loads	cop
16	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 1000s	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 trees	case
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 loads	nmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 saw	parataxis
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 What	cop
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 What	nsubj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past		a big tree	Kolkata	like 1000s of trunks and loads	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	must		loads		of trees	tree rules
3	is a	present	tree				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

A forest of different trees growing very close together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 forest	det
2	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 trees	case
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trees	amod
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forest	nmod
6	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 trees	acl
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 close	advmod
8	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 growing	advmod
9	together	together	ADV	_	6 growing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund	different trees not said here					close, together property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Great Banyan, one tree with roots that became trunks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Banyan	det
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Banyan	amod
3	Banyan	Banyan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tree	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 tree	nummod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Banyan	appos
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 roots	case
8	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tree	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 became	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tree	acl:relcl
11	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	one tree with roots	trunks					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A fake tree for tourists

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
2	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tree	amod
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 tourists	case
5	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tree	nmod

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

Option 4

A bamboo field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 field	det
2	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 field	compound
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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