Test 6 · ★★ · The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts

«mushrooms in a ring on the lawn, fairies were dancing lol. can i eat one» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mushrooms, i · What happens: dance, eat, be · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	_	2 mushrooms	punct
2	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dancing	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ring	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ring	det
5	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mushrooms	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 lawn	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lawn	det
8	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ring	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mushrooms	punct
10	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dancing	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dancing	aux
12	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 eat	csubj
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	12 dancing	discourse
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 dancing	punct
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 eat	aux
16	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 eat	nsubj
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 eat	obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 eat	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 right	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 right	cop
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eat	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dance in a quote	past · progressive	mushrooms in a ring on the lawn			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat in a quote	can	i	one		tree rules
3	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

It is a fungus spreading underground; never eat wild mushrooms without an expert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fungus	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fungus	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fungus	det
4	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fungus	acl
6	underground	underground	ADV	_	5 spreading	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 eat	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 eat	advmod
9	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 fungus	parataxis
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mushrooms	amod
11	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	obj
12	without	without	ADP	_	14 expert	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 expert	det
14	expert	expert	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a fungus		tree rules
2	spread	gerund	a fungus not said here		underground property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not eat	infinitive		wild mushrooms	without a expert	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Patient

Option 2

It is magic, so it is safe to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 magic	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 magic	cop
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 safe	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 safe	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 safe	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 safe	cop
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 magic	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 safe	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	magic property	tree rules
2	is	present	it	safe property	tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Mushrooms that grow in a ring on a lawn are always safe, so you can eat one

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 safe	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Mushrooms	acl:relcl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ring	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 lawn	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lawn	det
9	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 safe	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 safe	advmod
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eat	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 eat	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 eat	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 eat	aux
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 safe	conj
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Mushrooms		a ring	on a lawn	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ring=Location
2	is	present	Mushrooms			always, safe property	tree rules
3	eat	can	you	one			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 4

Only the biggest one is poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poisonous	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 poisonous	cop
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the biggest one					poisonous property	tree rules

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