Test 6 · ★ · China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies

«that tree under the window stinks like sick, someone dropped something» What is a likely cause?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: tree, someone · What happens: stink, drop, be · To what, where: something, likely cause · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 380 «China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies» 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	_	7 stinks	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stinks	nsubj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	nmod
7	stinks	stink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cause	csubj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 sick	case
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stinks	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dropped	punct
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 dropped	nsubj
12	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stinks	parataxis
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 dropped	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 stinks	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 cause	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cause	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cause	det
18	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cause	amod
19	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stink in a quote	present	that tree under the window		like sick	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drop in a quote	past	someone	something		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
3	is a	present		a likely cause		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 broken water pipe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pipe	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pipe	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pipe	compound
4	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The leaves are rotting in spring because the tree is dying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leaves	det
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rotting	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rotting	aux
4	rotting	rot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 spring	case
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rotting	obl
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 dying	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dying	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dying	aux
11	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 rotting	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	present · progressive	the leaves				spring		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	die	present · progressive	the tree						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

A sick fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fox	det
2	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fox	amod
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Squashed seeds from a female ginkgo tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Squashed	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	7 tree	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
5	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tree	amod
6	ginkgo	ginkgo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	participle		seeds		a female ginkgo tree			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent seed=Theme from tree=Trajectory

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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