Test 2 · Climbing trees and playgrounds
Ava finds a grey branch with no leaves in summer. Should she stand on it?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ava · What happens: find, stand · To what, where: grey branch, branch
This is test 2 of lesson 4 «Climbing trees and playgrounds» 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
Sentence 1: Ava finds a grey branch with no leaves in summer.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 finds | nsubj |
| 2 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 branch | det |
| 4 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 branch | amod |
| 5 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 finds | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 leaves | case |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 leaves | det |
| 8 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 finds | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 summer | case |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 finds | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Ava | a grey branch | summer | with no leaves | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Topic |
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.
Sentence 2: Should she stand on it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stand | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stand | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 stand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | should | Ava | branch | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location |
The options
Option 1
Only if it is high up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 6 up | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 up | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 up | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 up | cop |
| 5 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 up | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | high, up property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, it may be dead and could snap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 dead | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dead | cop |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 snap | cc |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 snap | aux |
| 9 | snap | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dead | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | it | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | snap | could | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, if she jumps on it fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 jumps | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 jumps | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 jumps | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 jumps | nsubj |
| 5 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 jumps | obl |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 jumps | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | present | she | it | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |
Option 4
Yes, grey branches are the strongest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 grey | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 branches | amod |
| 4 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strongest | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 strongest | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 strongest | det |
| 7 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | grey branches | strong property | tree rules |
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