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Test 1 · ★★ · The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts

Grandma: «put conkers on the windowsill, love, the spiders can't stand 'em.» How could you test whether that is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandma, spiders, you, that · What happens: put, not stand, test, be · To what, where: conkers, windowsill, 'em

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 335 «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» 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: Grandma: «put conkers on the windowsill, love, the spiders can't stand 'em.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	conkers	conker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 windowsill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 windowsill	det
8	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 love	punct
10	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 windowsill	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stand	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spiders	det
13	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stand	nsubj
14	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stand	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 stand	advmod
16	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	conj
17	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stand	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	infinitive	Grandma	conkers		the windowsill and love			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent conker=Theme on windowsill=Destination
2	not stand in a quote	can	the spiders	'em = they					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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: How could you test whether that is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 test	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 test	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 test	nsubj
4	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	8 true	mark
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 true	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 test	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	could	you						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	that					true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Count the conkers every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 conkers	det
3	conkers	conker	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Count	obj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Count	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	the conkers			day		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conker=Theme

Option 2

Ask the spiders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spiders	det
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the spiders					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spider=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Watch spiders near conkers and near no conkers in the same kind of place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Watch	obj
3	near	near	ADP	_	4 conkers	case
4	conkers	conker	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Watch	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 conkers	cc
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 conkers	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 conkers	det
8	conkers	conker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 conkers	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 kind	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kind	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kind	amod
12	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 place	case
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	spiders		conkers and no conkers		in the same kind of place	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Theme

Option 4

Put conkers on every windowsill in the house and see if you still find spiders

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	conkers	conker	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Put	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 windowsill	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 windowsill	det
5	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	conj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 find	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 find	nsubj
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 find	advmod
14	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	ccomp
15	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	conkers		every windowsill		in the house	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent conker=Theme on windowsill=Destination
2	see	infinitive	you not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	find a condition, not said to happen	present	you	spiders			still		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Topic

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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