Test 5 · ★ · Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime tree…

«sunflowers have always been ukrainian, like forever» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sunflowers · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 377 «Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses» 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	_	6 ukrainian	punct
2	sunflowers	sunflower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ukrainian	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ukrainian	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 ukrainian	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 ukrainian	cop
6	ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 forever	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 forever	case
9	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 ukrainian	advmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 forever	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ukrainian	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ukrainian	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present · perfect	sunflowers					always, forever, ukrainian property	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 · ✓ the right answer

They came from North America and reached Europe in the 1500s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 America	case
4	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 America	compound
5	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 reached	cc
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 1500s	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 1500s	det
11	1500s	1500	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	7 reached	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	They			North America			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from america=Initial_Location
2	reach	past	They not said here	Europe		the 1500s			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent europe=Theme

Option 2

They first grew wild in the steppe near Kyiv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 grew	advmod
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 steppe	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steppe	det
7	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl
8	near	near	ADP	_	9 Kyiv	case
9	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	They			the steppe		near Kyiv; first, wild property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in steppe=Location

Option 3

They came from Africa only last year on a big cargo ship to Odesa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Africa	case
4	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 last	advmod
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 year	amod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl:unmarked
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 ship	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ship	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ship	amod
11	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ship	compound
12	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Odesa	case
14	Odesa	Odesa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ship	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	They			Africa	year	on a big cargo ship to Odesa	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from africa=Initial_Location

Option 4

They came from the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 Moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	They			the Moon			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from moon=Initial_Location

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