Test 5 · ★ · Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, f…

Which blackberries would be the best choice to pick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: blackberry, be, pick · To what, where: best choice

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 326 «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 blackberries	nsubj
2	blackberries	blackberry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 choice	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 choice	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 choice	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 choice	amod
7	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blackberries	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pick	mark
9	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 choice	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 blackberries	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	blackberry	present		vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	would	the best choice	tree rules
3	pick	to-infinitive		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Ones on any bush, eaten straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 bush	case
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 bush	det
4	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ones	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eaten	punct
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ones	acl
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 eaten	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	participle		Ones on any bush not said here				away property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ones high on a hedge in a park, checked by Dad and washed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ones	amod
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 hedge	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hedge	det
5	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 high	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 park	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 park	det
8	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hedge	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 checked	punct
10	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ones	parataxis
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 Dad	case
12	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 checked	obl:agent
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 washed	cc
14	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 checked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	participle							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	wash	participle							vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Ones at the bottom of a hedge by a busy road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 bottom	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bottom	det
4	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ones	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hedge	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hedge	det
7	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bottom	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 road	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 road	det
10	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 road	amod
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ones	nmod

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

Option 4

Ones that look a bit like blackberries but are smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ones	acl:relcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 blackberries	case
7	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	obl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 smaller	cc
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 smaller	cop
10	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 look	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	Ones	a bit				like blackberries	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bit=Attribute
2	is	present	Ones not said here					small property	tree rules

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