Test 14 · ★★ · The night sky and outdoor myths

Why is moss a bad guide for finding north?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: moss, bad guide · What happens: be, find · To what, where: bad guide

This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 240 «The night sky and outdoor myths» 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	6 guide	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 guide	cop
3	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guide	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 guide	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 guide	amod
6	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 finding	mark
8	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 guide	acl
9	north	north	ADV	_	8 finding	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 guide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	moss	a bad guide					tree rules
2	find	gerund	a bad guide not said here					north property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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

It grows only on dead trees

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 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 trees	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 trees	case
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trees	amod
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It	dead trees					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme

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

It grows wherever it is damp and shady, on any side

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 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	6 damp	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 damp	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 damp	cop
6	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grows	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shady	cc
8	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 damp	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 side	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 side	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 side	det
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It	any side		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
2	is	present	it		damp, wherever property	tree rules
3	be					tree rules

Option 3

It is only wrong in the summer, when it grows 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	4 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 wrong	advmod
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 summer	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 summer	det
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrong	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grows	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 grows	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grows	nsubj
11	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	conj
12	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 grows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				summer	wrong property	tree rules
2	grow	present	it					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It only ever grows on the south side of trees

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	4 grows	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 grows	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 grows	advmod
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 side	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
7	south	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 side	amod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 trees	case
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 side	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It			the south side of trees	ever		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location

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