Test 5 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

Why pick blackberries above dog height?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: pick · To what, where: blackberries, dog height

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 237 «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 pick	advmod
2	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pick	obj
4	above	above	ADP	_	6 height	case
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 height	compound
6	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pick	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here	blackberries		dog height			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackberry=Patient

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

Dogs bite people picking low berries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bite	nsubj
2	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bite	obj
4	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 people	acl
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 berries	amod
6	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 picking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Dogs	people					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	pick	gerund	people not said here	low berries					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient

Option 2

Low berries are a different poisonous kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 berries	amod
2	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kind	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kind	det
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kind	amod
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kind	amod
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Low berries	a different poisonous kind					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The low ones may have been weed on by dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ones	det
2	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 weed	nsubj:pass
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 weed	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 weed	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 weed	aux:pass
7	weed	wee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 weed	compound:prt
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 dogs	case
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 weed	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wee on	may · perfect · passive	dogs	the low ones					tree rules

Option 4

The high ones are always the sweetest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ones	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sweetest	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sweetest	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 sweetest	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sweetest	det
7	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the high ones					always, sweet property	tree rules

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