Test 6 · ★ · The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flyin…

«mum won't mow the lawn, says it's for the bees, she's just lazy» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum, lawn · What happens: not mow, say, be · To what, where: lawn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 334 «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» 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	_	5 mow	punct
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mow	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 mow	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 mow	advmod
5	mow	mow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lawn	det
7	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mow	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mow	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bees	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bees	cop
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 bees	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bees	det
14	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 says	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lazy	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lazy	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 lazy	cop
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 lazy	advmod
19	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 true	csubj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 lazy	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 true	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 true	cop
23	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 says	parataxis
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not mow in a quote	future	mum	the lawn		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lawn=Patient
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	lawn		for the bees	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	mum		lazy property	tree rules
5	is	present			true 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

Long grass scares bees away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grass	amod
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scares	nsubj
3	scares	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scares	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 scares	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare away	present	Long grass	bees				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bee=Experiencer

Option 2

Bees eat the grass itself, so long grass is simply more food for them

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	4 grass	nmod:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 food	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	13 food	advmod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grass	amod
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 food	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 food	cop
11	simply	simply	ADV	_	13 food	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 food	amod
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 food	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Bees	the grass grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
2	is a	present	long grass	more food				for Bees = bee; simply property	tree rules

Option 3

Bees prefer short grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prefer	nsubj
2	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grass	amod
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prefer	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prefer	present	Bees	short grass					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grass=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Longer grass lets clover and daisies flower, which feed bees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 grass	amod
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lets	nsubj
3	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lets	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 daisies	cc
6	daisies	daisy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clover	conj
7	flower	flower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lets	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 feed	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 feed	nsubj
10	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lets	conj
11	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	let	present	Longer grass	clover and daisies		tree rules
2	flower	present	clover and daisies not said here			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feed	present			bees	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient

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