Test 18 · ★ · Litter and caring for nature

my mate says apple cores are fine to chuck in the bush cos they rot in like a day. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, apple cores, cores · What happens: say, be, chuck, rot in · To what, where: bush · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 239 «Litter and caring for nature» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cores	compound
5	cores	core	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fine	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 chuck	mark
9	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fine	csubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 bush	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bush	det
12	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chuck	obl
13	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	15 rot	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rot	nsubj
15	rot	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 chuck	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	15 rot	compound:prt
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 day	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rot	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fine	punct
21	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	apple cores			fine property	tree rules
3	chuck	to-infinitive		the bush			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in bush=Destination
4	rot in	present	cores = core		day		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

Yes, they vanish overnight, gone by morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 vanish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 vanish	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vanish	nsubj
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	4 vanish	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 vanish	advcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 morning	case
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	present	they					overnight property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	participle	they not said here				morning		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, they take months and draw animals near people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 draw	cc
7	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	conj
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 draw	obj
9	near	near	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 draw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	they				month		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	draw	present	they not said here	animals				near people	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme

Option 3

Yes, n animals never eat them anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 animals	compound
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	obj
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present	n animals	them = they				anyway property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Yes, they feed the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 feed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feed	nsubj
4	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	they	the trees					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Recipient

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