Test 5 · How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, dr…

«saw a vid where a mushroom grew in 5 seconds, faked innit» What is the most likely explanation?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vid, likely explanation · What happens: see, grow, fake, be · To what, where: faked innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 394 «How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting» 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	_	2 saw	punct
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vid	det
4	vid	vid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grew	nsubj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 grew	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mushroom	det
7	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 seconds	case
10	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 seconds	nummod
11	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grew	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
13	faked	fake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 innit	amod
14	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grew	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 grew	parataxis
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 What	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 explanation	det
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 likely	advmod
20	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 explanation	amod
21	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 What	nsubj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	see in a quote	past				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	grow in a quote	past	a vid	faked innit	second	tree rules
3	fake in a quote	participle				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	the likely explanation			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

Mushrooms really can grow from nothing in five seconds after rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 nothing	case
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 grow	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 seconds	case
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 seconds	nummod
9	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 rain	case
11	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	can	Mushrooms				after rain; second	from nothing	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from nothing=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is time-lapse: pictures taken over days shown quickly

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	5 lapse	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lapse	cop
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lapse	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
5	lapse	lapse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 pictures	punct
7	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lapse	conj
8	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 pictures	acl
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 days	case
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taken	obl
11	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 days	acl
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	11 shown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	time lapse and pictures			tree rules
2	take	participle		pictures not said here	day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	show	participle		days not said here		quickly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It was just a cartoon mushroom

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	6 mushroom	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mushroom	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 mushroom	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mushroom	det
5	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mushroom	compound
6	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a cartoon mushroom					tree rules

Option 4

The mushroom was pulled up with a string

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mushroom	det
2	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	aux:pass
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 pulled	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 string	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 string	det
8	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull up	past · passive		the mushroom				with a string	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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