Test 3 · ★★★ · Trees

What would make it hard for a tree to grow much taller than Hyperion?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: make, grow · To what, where: it

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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	3 make	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 grow	mark
10	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	advcl
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 taller	advmod
12	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 grow	xcomp
13	than	than	ADP	_	14 Hyperion	case
14	Hyperion	Hyperion	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 taller	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would		it				for a tree; hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary it=Product for tree=Asset
2	grow	to-infinitive						tall property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Lifting water so high up to the top leaves gets too hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lifting	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 gets	csubj
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lifting	obj
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 high	advmod
4	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Lifting	advmod
5	up	up	ADP	_	9 leaves	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 leaves	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 leaves	det
8	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 leaves	amod
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lifting	obl
10	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 hard	advmod
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	gerund		water		the top leaves		high property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme up leaf=Destination
2	get	present	Lifting					hard property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Birds would not land on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 land	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 land	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 land	advmod
4	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 land	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not land	would	Birds			it			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination

Option 3

The clouds would push it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clouds	det
2	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 push	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 push	aux
4	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 push	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 push	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push down	would	the clouds	it					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

The bark would get far too heavy for the trunk to hold up any longer

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bark	det
2	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 heavy	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 heavy	advmod
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 trunk	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trunk	det
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heavy	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hold	mark
12	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 hold	compound:prt
14	any	any	ADV	_	15 longer	advmod
15	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 hold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the bark					heavy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	hold up	to-infinitive	the bark not said here					long property	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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