Test 5 · ★★★ · Trees

Why can cork be taken from a cork oak again and again?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: take · To what, where: cork oak

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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	5 taken	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux
3	cork	cork	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 taken	aux:pass
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 oak	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 oak	det
8	cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 oak	compound
9	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obl
10	again	again	ADV	_	5 taken	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 again	cc
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 again	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 taken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	can · passive				a cork oak	again		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: from oak=Initial_Location

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

Cork comes from the roots, not the bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 roots	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 roots	det
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bark	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 bark	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bark	det
9	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roots	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Cork			the roots and the bark			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from root=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The cork oak grows a whole new trunk each year after the old one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 oak	det
2	cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 oak	compound
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trunk	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trunk	amod
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trunk	amod
8	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obl:unmarked
11	after	after	ADP	_	14 one	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 one	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	the cork oak	a whole new trunk			after the old one; year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trunk=Theme

Option 3

It can't, the tree dies after one peel

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	7 dies	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 dies	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 dies	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 n't	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dies	nsubj
7	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 peel	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 peel	nummod
10	peel	peel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not die	can	It				after one peel		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Only the thick outer bark is peeled, and the living layer grows more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	7 peeled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bark	det
3	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bark	amod
4	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bark	amod
5	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 peeled	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 peeled	aux:pass
7	peeled	peel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grows	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grows	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 layer	det
11	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 layer	compound
12	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grows	nsubj
13	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 peeled	conj
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 grows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peel	present · passive		the thick outer bark					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	grow	present	the living layer						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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