Test 7 · ★ · China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies

Why might a bendy pole be safer than a stiff one in strong winds?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bendy pole · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 safer	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 safer	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pole	det
4	bendy	bendy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pole	amod
5	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 safer	nsubj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 safer	cop
7	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 one	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 safer	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 winds	case
13	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 winds	amod
14	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 safer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	a bendy pole					than a stiff one in strong winds; safe 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

It is lighter so the wind cannot touch it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lighter	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lighter	cop
3	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 touch	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touch	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 touch	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 touch	advmod
9	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lighter	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					light property	tree rules
2	not touch	can	the wind	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Stiff poles are always made of glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stiff	stiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poles	compound
2	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 made	advmod
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 glass	case
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Stiff poles				of glass; always property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It bends and springs back instead of snapping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bends	nsubj
2	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 springs	cc
4	springs	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bends	conj
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 springs	advmod
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 snapping	mark
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 springs	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	bend	present	It	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spring back	present		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	snap	gerund		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Bendy poles stop the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bendy	bendy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 poles	amod
2	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Bendy poles	the wind					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality wind=Eventuality

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