Test 10 · Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast

Why does a fairy ring get bigger every year?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairy ring · What happens: get

This is test 10 of lesson 62 «Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast» 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	6 get	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ring	det
4	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ring	amod
5	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 get	xcomp
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl:unmarked
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · do-support	a fairy ring				year	big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

More rain falls on the lawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 rain	amod
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	nsubj
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 lawn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lawn	det
6	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	More rain			the lawn			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on lawn=Location

Option 2

Mushrooms walk outwards at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walk	nsubj
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	outwards	outwards	ADV	_	2 walk	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Mushrooms				night	outwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Fairies dance in a bigger ring every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dance	nsubj
2	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 ring	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ring	det
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 ring	amod
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dance	obl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dance	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present	Fairies			a bigger ring	year		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ring=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The fungus threads keep growing outwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 threads	det
2	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threads	compound
3	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	outwards	outwards	ADV	_	5 growing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the fungus threads						tree rules
2	grow	gerund	the fungus threads not said here					outwards property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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