Test 8 · Climbing trees and playgrounds
A girl in Auckland climbs a tree after rain. What should she know?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: climb, know · To what, where: tree
This is test 8 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: A girl in Auckland climbs a tree after rain.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbs | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Auckland | case |
| 4 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbs | obj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 rain | case |
| 9 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbs | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 climbs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | present | a girl in Auckland | a tree | after rain | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme |
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: What should she know?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 know | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | should | girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The bark and branches may be slippery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bark | det |
| 2 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slippery | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 branches | cc |
| 4 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bark | conj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 slippery | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 slippery | cop |
| 7 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | the bark and branches | slippery property | tree rules |
Option 2
Rain makes the tree shorter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Rain | the tree | short property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product |
Option 3
Wet trees are easier to climb, since bark gets sticky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 trees | amod |
| 2 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 easier | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easier | cop |
| 4 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 climb | mark |
| 6 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easier | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gets | punct |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 gets | mark |
| 9 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gets | nsubj |
| 10 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easier | advcl |
| 11 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gets | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Wet trees | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | climb | to-infinitive | Wet trees not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | present | bark | sticky property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Rain makes branches stronger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Rain | branches | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset branch=Product |
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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