Test 11 · ★★ · The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts

«the cold paints the leaves red, that's what Jack Frost does in the film» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cold, that, Jack · What happens: paint, be, do · To what, where: leaves, film

This is test 11 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 paints	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cold	det
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paints	nsubj
4	paints	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 leaves	det
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paints	obj
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paints	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 what	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 what	cop
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 paints	parataxis
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 does	nsubj
13	Frost	Frost	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Jack	flat
14	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 what	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 film	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 film	det
17	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 does	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 what	acl:relcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 paints	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	paint in a quote	present	the cold	the leaves		red property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Destination
2	is a in a quote	present	that				tree rules
3	do in a quote	present	Jack		the film		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present				right 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 · ✓ the right answer

The tree makes the reds itself; sunny days and cold nights make them brightest

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reds	det
5	reds	red	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	5 reds	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 days	punct
8	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 days	amod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 make	cc
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nights	amod
12	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	nsubj
13	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the tree	the reds tree			day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset red=Product
2	make	present	cold nights	reds = red				bright property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Only cold nights with no sun make red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 nights	advmod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nights	amod
3	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 sun	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nights	nmod
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	cold nights with no sun					red property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3

Leaves turn red from the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turn	xcomp
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 rain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rain	det
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Leaves			the rain		red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from rain=Trajectory

Option 4

Yes, frost paints every leaf red overnight, and rain then washes the colour off

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 paints	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paints	nsubj
4	paints	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 leaf	det
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paints	obj
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leaf	amod
8	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	4 paints	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 washes	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 washes	cc
11	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 washes	nsubj
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 washes	advmod
13	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 paints	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 colour	det
15	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 washes	obj
16	off	off	ADP	_	13 washes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present	frost	every leaf				overnight property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Destination
2	wash off	present	rain	the colour			then		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

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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