Test 5 · Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, lime…
In a cartoon all the park trees are green lollipops, all the same. What can you use to tell real trees apart in winter?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: park trees, you · What happens: be, use, tell · To what, where: green lollipops, cartoon, real trees · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 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
Sentence 1: In a cartoon all the park trees are green lollipops, all the same.
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 | 10 lollipops | obl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 trees | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trees | det |
| 6 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trees | compound |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lollipops | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lollipops | cop |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lollipops | amod |
| 10 | lollipops | lollipop | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 same | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 same | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 same | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lollipops | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lollipops | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | all park trees | green lollipops | a cartoon | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | all park trees not said here | 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.
Sentence 2: What can you use to tell real trees apart in winter?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 use | obj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 use | nsubj |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 tell | mark |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | advcl |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trees | amod |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tell | obj |
| 9 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 6 tell | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 winter | case |
| 11 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | can | you | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | real trees | winter | apart property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tree=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Bark, buds and the shape of the tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 buds | punct |
| 3 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bark | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shape | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shape | det |
| 6 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bark | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shape | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nothing, without leaves they are all the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaves | punct |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 4 leaves | case |
| 4 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 same | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 same | cop |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 same | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 same | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | leaves = leaf | all, same property | tree rules |
Option 3
Only the birds sitting in them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 birds | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 birds | det |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 birds | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sitting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | the birds not said here | in birds = bird | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in they=Location |
Option 4
Only the colour of the soil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 colour | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 colour | det |
| 3 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 soil | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soil | det |
| 6 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 colour | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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