Test 4 · ★★★ · Trees

If your friend reckons the big redwood in the photo is the biggest tree in the world by volume, what do you say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, big redwood, you · What happens: reckon, be, say · To what, where: biggest tree, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 reckons	mark
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friend	nmod:poss
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 say	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 redwood	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 redwood	amod
7	redwood	redwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 photo	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 photo	det
10	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 redwood	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tree	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
13	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 tree	amod
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	nmod
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 volume	case
19	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 say	obj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 say	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 say	nsubj
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reckon a condition, not said to happen	present	your friend			by volume	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the big redwood in the photo	the biggest tree	the world		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present · do-support	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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, all redwoods are the same size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 size	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 redwoods	det
4	redwoods	redwood	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 size	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 size	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 size	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 size	amod
8	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	all redwoods	the same size					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, the tallest is always the biggest, that's how it works

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 tallest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tallest	det
4	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 biggest	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 biggest	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 biggest	det
8	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 tallest	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 how	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 how	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 how	cop
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 works	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 works	nsubj
14	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tallest	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present		always, big property	tree rules
2	is	present	that	how property	tree rules
3	work	present	it		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Not quite: Hyperion is tallest, but General Sherman is biggest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	ExtPos=CCONJ Polarity=Neg	6 tallest	cc
2	quite	quite	ADV	_	1 Not	fixed
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 tallest	punct
4	Hyperion	Hyperion	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tallest	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tallest	cop
6	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 biggest	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 biggest	cc
9	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Sherman	compound
10	Sherman	Sherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 biggest	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 biggest	cop
12	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 tallest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Hyperion					tall property	tree rules
2	is	present	General Sherman					big property	tree rules

Option 4

No, the biggest tree is an oak in England

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 oak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 tree	amod
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oak	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 oak	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 oak	det
8	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 England	case
10	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 oak	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the biggest tree	a oak		England			tree rules

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