Test 8 · Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, lime…

Why would a seed spin as it falls?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: seed spin · What happens: fall

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 falls	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spin	det
4	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spin	compound
5	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 falls	nsubj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 falls	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 falls	nsubj
8	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl:relcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	a seed spin						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Spinning slows the fall so the wind carries it further

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 slows	nsubj
2	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fall	det
4	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slows	obj
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 carries	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carries	nsubj
8	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 slows	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 carries	obj
10	further	further	ADV	_	8 carries	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spin	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	slow	present		the fall		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fall=Patient
3	carry	present	the wind	fall	further property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Spinning helps it drill down into the ground when it lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	drill	drill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 drill	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drill	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 lands	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lands	nsubj
11	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 helps	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	spin	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	help	present		it		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	drill down	infinitive			the ground	vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	land	present	ground			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Spinning keeps the seed warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seed	det
4	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present		the seed				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme

Option 4

Spinning shakes off insects

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 shakes	nsubj
2	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 shakes	compound:prt
4	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shakes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	shake off	present		insects					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent insect=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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