Test 12 · Finding your way with landmarks

does moss grow on the north side?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moss · What happens: grow · To what, where: north side

This is test 12 of lesson 16 «Finding your way with landmarks» of the everyday 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	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
2	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 side	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
6	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 side	amod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · do-support	moss			the north side			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, always on the north side, that's how you find north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	13 find	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 how	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 side	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
6	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 side	amod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 always	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 always	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 how	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 how	cop
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 find	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 find	nsubj
13	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	north	north	ADV	_	13 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					always, how property	tree rules
2	find	present	you					north property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Only on the south side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 side	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 side	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 side	det
4	south	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 side	amod
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Not reliably, it grows where it's damp and shady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 reliably	advmod
2	reliably	reliably	ADV	_	5 grows	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reliably	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grows	nsubj
5	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 damp	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 damp	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 damp	cop
9	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grows	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shady	cc
11	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 damp	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grow	present	it	reliably property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	it	damp property	tree rules
3	be				tree rules

Option 4

Yes, moss is a compass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 compass	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 compass	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 compass	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 compass	det
6	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	moss	a compass					tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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