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Test 6 · Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck

A man in the 1800s read in a newspaper about a tree in Madagascar that ate people. What was it really?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man, tree · What happens: read, eat, be · To what, where: newspaper, people, tree

This is test 6 of lesson 254 «Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck» 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: A man in the 1800s read in a newspaper about a tree in Madagascar that ate people.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 read	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 1800s	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 1800s	det
5	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	2 man	nmod
6	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 newspaper	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 newspaper	det
9	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 read	obl
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 newspaper	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Madagascar	case
14	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tree	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 ate	nsubj
16	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tree	acl:relcl
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ate	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	a man in the 1800s			a newspaper about a tree in Madagascar			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past	a tree in Madagascar	people					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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.

Sentence 2: What was it really?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 it	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	1 What	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		tree					tree rules

The options

Option 1

A giant pitcher plant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plant	amod
3	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plant	compound
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A real tree that is now extinct

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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tree	amod
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 extinct	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 extinct	cop
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 extinct	advmod
7	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tree	acl:relcl

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

Option 3

A pet tiger hiding in a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tiger	det
2	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tiger	compound
3	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 tiger	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund	a pet tiger not said here			a tree			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A made-up hoax story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 story	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
5	hoax	hoax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	compound
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	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

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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