Test 2 · ★★★ · Trees

Why might growing slowly help a tree live longer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tree · What happens: grow, help, live

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 growing	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 growing	aux
3	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 help	advcl
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 help	advmod
5	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 live	nsubj
8	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 help	xcomp
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 live	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grow	might			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help	present		slowly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	live	infinitive	a tree	long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «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

Slow trees sleep more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 trees	amod
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sleep	nsubj
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 sleep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	Slow trees						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Slow wood is dense and tough, and the harsh place keeps pests away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wood	amod
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dense	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dense	cop
4	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tough	cc
6	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dense	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 keeps	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 keeps	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 place	det
10	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 place	amod
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keeps	nsubj
12	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dense	parataxis
13	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 keeps	obj
14	away	away	ADV	_	12 keeps	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Slow wood		dense property	tree rules
2	be		Slow wood not said here			tree rules
3	keep away	present	the harsh place	pests	away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pest=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Growing fast makes trees explode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 makes	csubj
2	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Growing	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
5	explode	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund			fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present	Growing	trees		tree rules
3	explode	infinitive	trees not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Slow trees are protected by law and nobody is allowed to cut them down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 trees	amod
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 protected	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 protected	aux:pass
4	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 law	case
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 protected	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 allowed	cc
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 allowed	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 allowed	aux:pass
10	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 protected	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 cut	mark
12	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 allowed	xcomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cut	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 cut	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	protect	present · passive	law	Slow trees	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary
2	allow	present · passive		nobody	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	cut down not said to happen	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	trees = tree	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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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