Test 7 · Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, lime…

«just roast these conkers off the big tree with hand-shaped leaves» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: roast, shape, be · To what, where: conkers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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 roast	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 roast	advmod
3	roast	roast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 conkers	det
5	conkers	conker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roast	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	9 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	amod
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roast	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 leaves	case
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shaped	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 shaped	punct
13	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 leaves	amod
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roast	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 roast	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 roast	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 roast	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	roast in a quote	imperative	you not said here	this conkers	off the big tree; with shaped leaves	tree rules
2	shape in a quote	participle				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	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

Fine, hand-shaped leaves always mean a sweet chestnut, and its nuts roast well

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leaves	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shaped	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 hand	punct
5	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 leaves	amod
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mean	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 mean	advmod
8	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 chestnut	det
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 chestnut	amod
11	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mean	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 roast	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 roast	cc
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 nuts	nmod:poss
15	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 roast	nsubj
16	roast	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	conj
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 roast	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shape	participle				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	mean	present	Fine shaped leaves	a sweet chestnut	always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chestnut=Topic
3	roast	present	chestnut's nuts		well property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That is a horse chestnut; only sweet chestnuts with spiral bark are roasted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 chestnut	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 chestnut	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chestnut	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chestnut	compound
5	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 chestnuts	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 chestnuts	advmod
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chestnuts	amod
9	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 roasted	nsubj:pass
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 bark	case
11	spiral	spiral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bark	amod
12	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chestnuts	nmod
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 roasted	aux:pass
14	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 chestnut	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a horse chestnut					tree rules
2	roast	present · passive	a horse chestnut not said here	sweet chestnuts with spiral bark					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Any chestnut is safe to roast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 chestnut	det
2	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 safe	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	cop
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 roast	mark
6	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 safe	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	any chestnut					safe property	tree rules
2	roast	to-infinitive	any chestnut not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Conkers taste best roasted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Conkers	conker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taste	nsubj
2	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 taste	advmod
4	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 taste	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	Conkers					well property	vn see-30.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	roast	participle	Conkers not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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