Test 1 · ★★★ · Trees

What might a very thin tree ring tell you about that year?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thin tree ring · What happens: tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Trees» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ring	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 thin	advmod
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ring	amod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ring	compound
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 year	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	might	a thin tree ring		you		year		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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 was the tree's birthday

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 birthday	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 birthday	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 birthday	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 tree	case
6	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the tree's birthday					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The tree grew the fastest it ever has

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fastest	csubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fastest	det
5	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 has	nsubj
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 has	advmod
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fastest	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the tree						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	tree				ever		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Someone painted a thin line on the tree that year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 painted	nsubj
2	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 line	det
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 line	amod
5	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 painted	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 painted	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past	Someone	a thin line		the tree that year			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent line=Theme on tree=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It was a hard year, perhaps dry or cold

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 year	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 year	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 year	det
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 year	amod
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dry	punct
7	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	8 dry	advmod
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 year	advcl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 cold	cc
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dry	conj

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

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