Test 9 · ★★★ · Trees

Why do bluebells flower early in spring in a beech wood?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: bluebells · What happens: flower · To what, where: beech wood

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	4 flower	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flower	aux
3	bluebells	bluebell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flower	nsubj
4	flower	flower	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 flower	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 spring	case
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flower	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 wood	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wood	det
10	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wood	compound
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flower	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 flower	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flower	present · do-support	bluebells			a beech wood	spring	early property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=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

Beech trees tell them when to flower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trees	compound
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 flower	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 flower	mark
7	flower	flower	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Beech trees		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	flower	to-infinitive	Beech trees not said here						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The bees only come out in March, and the bluebells must catch them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bees	det
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 March	case
7	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 catch	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 catch	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bluebells	det
11	bluebells	bluebell	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 catch	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 catch	aux
13	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	the bees				march	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	catch	must	the bluebells	bees = bee					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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

They bloom before the beech leaves open and block out the light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bloom	nsubj
2	bloom	bloom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 open	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 leaves	det
5	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaves	nsubj
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 open	nsubj
7	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bloom	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 block	cc
9	block	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bloom	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 block	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 light	det
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 block	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bloom	present	They		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leaf		beech		tree rules
3	open	present	the leaves		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	block out	present	They not said here	the light	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer light=Theme

Option 4

They like the cold better than the warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cold	det
4	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 like	obj
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 like	xcomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 warm	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 warm	det
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	They	the cold				good property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot cold=Theme

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