Test 6 · The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees an…

Why is early spring a good time for low flowers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: early spring · What happens: be

This is test 6 of lesson 333 «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spring	amod
4	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spring	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 flowers	case
9	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flowers	amod
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 time	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	early spring and a good time for low flowers					why 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

The trees have no leaves yet, so sunlight reaches the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	3 have	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reaches	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 reaches	advmod
9	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reaches	nsubj
10	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reaches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the trees	no leaves			yet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	reach	present	sunlight	the ground					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=Theme

Option 2

There is no rain in spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 rain	det
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 spring	case
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no rain			there	spring		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Bees only visit low flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visit	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 visit	advmod
3	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flowers	amod
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	present	Bees	low flowers					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent

Option 4

The soil is warmest in early spring, warmer than in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soil	det
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warmest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warmest	cop
4	warmest	warm	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 spring	case
6	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spring	amod
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warmest	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 warmer	punct
9	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 warmest	amod
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 summer	case
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 summer	case
12	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 warmer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the soil				spring	warm 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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