Test 1 · ★★ · Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grap…

In a jungle cartoon, a monkey grabs a banana bunch drooping straight down off a palm tree. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monkey, banana bunch · What happens: grab, droop, be · To what, where: banana bunch, jungle cartoon

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 346 «Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow» 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 jungle cartoon, a monkey grabs a banana bunch drooping straight down off a palm tree.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cartoon	det
3	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cartoon	compound
4	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grabs	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cartoon	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 monkey	det
7	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grabs	nsubj
8	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bunch	det
10	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bunch	compound
11	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grabs	obj
12	drooping	droop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 bunch	acl
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 down	advmod
14	down	down	ADV	_	12 drooping	advmod
15	off	off	ADP	_	18 tree	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
17	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tree	compound
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drooping	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grabs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	present	a monkey	a banana bunch		a jungle cartoon			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bunch=Theme
2	droop	gerund	a banana bunch not said here					off a palm tree; down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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.

Sentence 2: What is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Bananas grow under the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Bananas			the ground			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ground=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing is wrong, because bananas always hang straight down from tall palm trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hang	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 hang	mark
6	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hang	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 hang	advmod
8	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	conj
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 down	advmod
10	down	down	ADV	_	8 hang	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 trees	case
12	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 trees	amod
13	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trees	compound
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					wrong property	tree rules
2	hang	present	bananas			tall palm trees		always, down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Bananas grow on a giant herb and curve upwards towards the light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 herb	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 herb	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 herb	amod
6	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 curve	cc
8	curve	curve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	conj
9	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	8 curve	advmod
10	towards	towards	ADP	_	12 light	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 light	det
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 curve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Bananas			a giant herb			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on herb=Location
2	curve	present	Bananas not said here					towards the light; upwards property	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material

Option 4

Bananas grow one at a time on vines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 grow	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 vines	case
8	vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 time	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Bananas	one			time		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme

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