Test 2 · ★★★ · Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clove…

«dad says dandelions are weeds, kill 'em all» Is a weed a kind of plant or an idea?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad, dandelions · What happens: say, be, kill · To what, where: weeds, 'em, weed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 340 «Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain» 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 says	punct
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 weed	advcl
4	dandelions	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 weeds	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 weeds	cop
6	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 says	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kill	punct
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
9	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kill	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 'em	det
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 kill	punct
12	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 weed	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 weed	det
14	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 kind	det
16	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weed	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 plant	case
18	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kind	nmod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 idea	cc
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 idea	det
21	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 plant	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 weed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	dad		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	dandelions	weeds	tree rules
3	kill in a quote	infinitive		'em = they	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	is a	present		a weed	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

A kind of plant, always poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poisonous	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 plant	case
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 kind	punct
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 poisonous	advmod
7	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A kind of plant with no flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 plant	case
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 flowers	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 flowers	det
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kind	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

An idea: a weed is a plant where people do not want it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 plant	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 weed	det
5	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plant	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 plant	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plant	det
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 idea	appos
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 want	advmod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 want	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 want	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 want	advmod
13	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 plant	acl:relcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a weed	a plant					tree rules
2	not want	present · do-support	people	weed					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 4

A kind of plant: weeds are always poisonous and only grow on lawns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poisonous	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 plant	case
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 poisonous	punct
6	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poisonous	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 poisonous	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 poisonous	advmod
9	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grow	cc
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 grow	advmod
12	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 poisonous	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 lawns	case
14	lawns	lawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a kind of plant					always, poisonous property	tree rules
2	grow	present	a kind of plant not said here			lawns			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lawn=Location

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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