Test 2 · Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, lime…

What would a thin ring tell you about that year?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: thin ring · What happens: tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ring	det
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ring	amod
5	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would	a thin ring		you		year		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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 tree was cut that year

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	4 cut	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux:pass
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past · passive		the tree			year		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

It was a very good year

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	6 year	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 year	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 good	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 year	amod
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a good year					tree rules

Option 3

It was a very warm, wet year when the tree grew fast

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	8 year	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 year	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 warm	advmod
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 year	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 warm	punct
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 year	amod
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 grew	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 year	advcl
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 grew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a warm wet year					tree rules
2	grow	past	the tree					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was a dry or cold year with little growth

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	7 year	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 year	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 year	amod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 cold	cc
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dry	conj
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 growth	case
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 growth	amod
10	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 year	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a dry year				with little growth	tree rules

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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