Test 6 · Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, lime…

«black buds — beech, innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beech · What happens: innit, be

This is test 6 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 buds	punct
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 buds	amod
3	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	—	-	PUNCT	_	5 beech	punct
5	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buds	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 beech	acl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 innit	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 buds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit in a quote	infinitive	beech not said here						tree rules
2	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, beech has black buds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 buds	amod
6	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	beech	black buds					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bud=Patient

Option 2

Black buds mean birch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 buds	amod
2	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mean	nsubj
3	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Black buds	birch					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birch=Topic

Option 3

Yes, beech has black buds, and ash has long pointed ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 beech	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 buds	amod
6	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pointed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pointed	cc
9	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pointed	nsubj:pass
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pointed	aux
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 pointed	advmod
12	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 ones	amod
13	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	beech	black buds					tree rules
2	point	present · perfect · passive		ash				long property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Black buds mean ash; beech has long pointed buds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 buds	amod
2	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mean	nsubj
3	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mean	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 pointed	punct
6	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pointed	nsubj:pass
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pointed	aux
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 pointed	advmod
9	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 buds	amod
10	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Black buds	ash					tree rules
2	point	present · perfect · passive		beech				long property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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