Test 4 · ★★ · The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts
In a cartoon a squirrel buries one acorn and digs up exactly that acorn in spring. What do real jays do with the acorns they bury?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: squirrel, real jays, jays · What happens: bury, dig up, be, do · To what, where: one acorn, cartoon, acorn, acorns
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: In a cartoon a squirrel buries one acorn and digs up exactly that acorn in spring.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buries | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 squirrel | det |
| 5 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buries | nsubj |
| 6 | buries | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 acorn | nummod |
| 8 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buries | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 digs | cc |
| 10 | digs | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 buries | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 digs | compound:prt |
| 12 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 14 acorn | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 acorn | det |
| 14 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 digs | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 spring | case |
| 16 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 acorn | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 buries | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | present | a squirrel | one acorn | a cartoon | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent acorn=Theme in cartoon=Destination | |||
| 2 | dig up | present | a squirrel not said here | that acorn in spring | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: What do real jays do with the acorns they bury?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jays | amod |
| 4 | jays | jay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 acorns | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 acorns | det |
| 8 | acorns | acorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bury | nsubj |
| 10 | bury | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 acorns | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | real jays | with the acorns | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bury | present | jays = jay | the acorns not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acorn=Theme |
The options
Option 1
They find every acorn without fail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 acorn | det |
| 4 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 fail | case |
| 6 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | They | every acorn | without fail | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acorn=Topic |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
They bury them only to hide them from squirrels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bury | nsubj |
| 2 | bury | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bury | obj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 hide | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hide | mark |
| 6 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bury | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hide | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 squirrels | case |
| 9 | squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hide | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | present | They | them = they | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | to-infinitive | They not said here | them = they | from squirrels | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Patient from squirrel=Beneficiary |
Option 3
They never find a single acorn again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 find | advmod |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 acorn | det |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 acorn | amod |
| 6 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 find | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | present | They | a single acorn | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acorn=Topic |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
They find many again, and forgotten ones can grow into oaks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 find | obj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 find | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grow | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grow | cc |
| 7 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ones | amod |
| 8 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grow | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 grow | aux |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 find | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 oaks | case |
| 12 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | They | many | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic | |||
| 2 | forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | grow | can | forgotten ones | into oaks result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into oak=Result |
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