Test 8 · ★ · Litter and caring for nature

Why should you never scratch your initials into a tree?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, your · What happens: not scratch, initial · To what, where: initials, tree

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 scratch	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 scratch	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 scratch	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 scratch	advmod
5	scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 initials	nmod:poss
7	initials	initial	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scratch	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scratch	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 scratch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not scratch	should	you	your initials				into a tree result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent initial=Patient into tree=Result
2	initial		your						nom initial «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

Trees cannot feel anything, so it is always fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 feel	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fine	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 fine	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fine	expl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fine	cop
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 fine	advmod
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	can	Trees	anything					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	is	present	Trees not said here					always, fine property	tree rules

Option 2

It makes the tree grow faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 grow	advmod

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

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

It spoils the place for others and harms the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoils	nsubj
2	spoils	spoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 place	det
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoils	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 others	case
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spoils	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 harms	cc
8	harms	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 spoils	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 harms	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spoil	present	It	the place				for others	tree rules
2	harm	present		the tree					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tree=Experiencer

Option 4

Only the very big old trees mind being scratched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 trees	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trees	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trees	amod
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mind	nsubj
7	mind	mind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 scratched	aux:pass
9	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 mind	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mind	present	the big old trees						vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	scratch	gerund · passive	the big old trees not said here						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»

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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