Test 9 · ★ · Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime tree…

Why would grass roots make richer soil than a pine forest's needles?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grass roots · What happens: make · To what, where: richer soil

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 make	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 roots	aux
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roots	compound
4	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 soil	amod
7	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	13 needles	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 forest	det
10	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 forest	compound
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 needles	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 forest	case
13	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	grass roots	richer soil				than a pine forest's needles	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soil=Product

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

Many roots die and rot deep in the ground every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 roots	amod
2	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 die	nsubj
3	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rot	cc
5	rot	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 die	conj
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rot	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 die	obl
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 die	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	Many roots				year	in the ground	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in ground=Attribute
2	rot	present	Many roots not said here					deep property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Pine trees drink all the soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trees	compound
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drink	nsubj
3	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 soil	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soil	det
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	Pine trees	all soil					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient

Option 3

Pine needles are made of metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needles	compound
2	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 metal	case
6	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Pine needles				of metal	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

Grass makes soil out of air and rain all by itself, without any help

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 air	case
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rain	cc
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 air	conj
9	all	all	ADV	_	11 itself	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 itself	case
11	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 makes	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 help	punct
13	without	without	ADP	_	15 help	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 help	det
15	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Grass	soil		air and rain		by Grass	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soil=Product

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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