Test 1 · Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, lime…

«pussy willow — so there's cats in it lol» What are they really?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pussy willow · What happens: be

This is test 1 of lesson 339 «Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart» 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	_	3 willow	punct
2	pussy	pussy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 willow	amod
3	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 What	nsubj
4	—	-	PUNCT	_	7 's	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 's	advmod
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 's	expl
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 What	cop
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 's	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 's	obl
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	13 What	discourse
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 lol	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 What	acl:relcl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 are	nsubj
16	really	really	ADV	_	13 What	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	pussy willow						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 · ← Mova's choice

Mice hiding in the branches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Mice	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 branches	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 branches	det
5	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund	Mice not said here			the branches			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in branch=Location

Option 2

Fluffy seeds that blow away and land on cats in the spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seeds	amod
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blow	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 blow	nsubj
4	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 blow	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 land	cc
7	land	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blow	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 cats	case
9	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 land	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 spring	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spring	det
12	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 land	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow away	present	Fluffy seeds					away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	land	present	Fluffy seeds not said here				spring	on cats	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on cat=Destination

Option 3

Nests made by wild cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nests	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 cats	case
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cats	amod
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		Nests not said here				by wild cats	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Soft flower catkins named for feeling like a cat's paw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 catkins	amod
2	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catkins	compound
3	catkins	catkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 catkins	acl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 feeling	case
6	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 named	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 paw	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 paw	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 cat	case
11	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		Soft flower catkins not said here				for feeling; like a cat's paw	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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