Test 10 · How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air

If you painted a line on a tree trunk, would it move up as the tree grows?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, line, tree · What happens: paint, move up, grow · To what, where: line, tree trunk

This is test 10 of lesson 56 «How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 painted	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 painted	nsubj
3	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 move	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 line	det
5	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 trunk	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 trunk	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trunk	compound
9	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 painted	punct
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 move	aux
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 move	nsubj
13	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 move	compound:prt
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 grows	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grows	nsubj
18	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 move	advcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 move	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	paint a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a line	a tree trunk	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent line=Theme on trunk=Destination
2	move up	would	line			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	present	the tree			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

No, it moves down into the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 moves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 moves	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 moves	nsubj
4	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 moves	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move down	present	it			the ground		down property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into ground=Trajectory

Option 2

Yes, it moves to the top within a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 moves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 moves	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 moves	nsubj
4	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 top	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moves	obl
8	within	within	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	it			the top	year		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to top=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, trees grow taller at the tips, so the mark stays at that height

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grow	punct
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 tips	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tips	det
8	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 taller	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stays	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 stays	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mark	det
12	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stays	nsubj
13	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 height	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 height	det
16	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	trees					tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay	present	the mark			that height			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at height=Location

Option 4

Yes, it moves up a little each year as the trunk stretches upwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 moves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 moves	nsubj
4	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 moves	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moves	obl:unmarked
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moves	obl:unmarked
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 stretches	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trunk	det
12	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stretches	nsubj
13	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 moves	advcl
14	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	13 stretches	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move up	present	it	a little			year		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	stretch	present	the trunk					upwards property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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