Test 10 · ★ · The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor

«why's the ground so bare under all them massive trees?» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ground · What happens: be · To what, where: all, best answer

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 3 «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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: «why's the ground so bare under all them massive trees?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 bare	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 bare	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bare	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bare	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 bare	advmod
7	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	under	under	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 bare	obl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 all	nmod
11	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trees	amod
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 them	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bare	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 bare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the ground			all		bare 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.

Sentence 2: Which is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 answer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best answer					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Animals eat everything that grows there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 eat	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 grows	nsubj
5	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 everything	acl:relcl
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 grows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Animals	everything					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
2	grow	present				there			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The canopy takes almost all the light, so little can grow below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 canopy	det
2	canopy	canopy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	nsubj
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 all	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 light	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grow	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 little	advmod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grow	advcl
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 grow	aux
12	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 takes	advcl
13	below	below	ADV	_	12 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	the canopy	all light					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
2	grow	can	the canopy not said here					below property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Trees poison the ground under them so that no other plant can ever grow there

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 poison	nsubj
2	poison	poison	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poison	obj
5	under	under	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 poison	obl
7	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 grow	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 so	fixed
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 plant	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plant	amod
11	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grow	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 grow	aux
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 grow	advmod
14	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 poison	advcl
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	present	Trees	the ground				under them = they	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient
2	grow	can	no other plant			there	ever		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The floor is too wet to grow anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 floor	det
2	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wet	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wet	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 wet	advmod
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 grow	mark
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wet	advcl
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the floor					wet property	tree rules
2	grow	to-infinitive	the floor not said here	anything					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location anything=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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