Test 3 · Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, lime…

«my uncle says to count rings you just chop it down, easy» Why is measuring better?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: uncle, you · What happens: say, count, chop down, measure · To what, where: rings, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 uncle	nmod:poss
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 count	mark
6	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 chop	advcl
7	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 count	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 chop	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 chop	advmod
10	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chop	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	10 chop	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 easy	punct
14	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 easy	punct
16	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 measuring	advmod
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 measuring	aux
18	measuring	measure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 says	ccomp
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 measuring	xcomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my uncle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	count in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	rings		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
3	chop down in a quote	present	you	it		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	measure	present · progressive			good property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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

Trees have no rings until they are cut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 rings	det
4	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 cut	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cut	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	aux:pass
8	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Trees	no rings					tree rules
2	cut	present · passive		Trees = tree					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You can guess the age without killing the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 guess	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 guess	aux
3	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 age	det
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guess	obj
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 killing	mark
7	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 guess	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	can	You	the age					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme
2	kill	gerund	You not said here	the tree					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

Option 3

Chopping always gives the wrong number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chopping	chopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 gives	advmod
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 number	det
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 number	amod
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Chopping	the wrong number				always property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme

Option 4

Measuring tells you the exact birthday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Measuring	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 tells	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birthday	det
5	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 birthday	amod
6	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	gerund							vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present		the exact birthday	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient birthday=Topic

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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