Test 7 · ★★ · Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground

"sis thinks bananas grow on trees haha" What's the gentle, true thing to tell her?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sis, bananas · What happens: think, grow, be, tell · To what, where: trees, gentle true thing, sis · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thinks	punct
2	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinks	nsubj
3	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thinks	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 trees	case
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obl
8	haha	haha	INTJ	_	5 grow	discourse
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 thing	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 thing	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 thing	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
13	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gentle	punct
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 tell	mark
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 thing	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present	sis				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	grow in a quote	present	bananas			trees	tree rules
3	is a	present		the gentle true thing			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			sis		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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

Bananas grow under the ground, just like potatoes do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 potatoes	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 potatoes	case
9	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Bananas			the ground			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ground=Location
2	do	present	potatoes						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

They look like trees, but they're really giant herbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 trees	case
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 herbs	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 herbs	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 herbs	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 herbs	cop
9	really	really	ADV	_	11 herbs	advmod
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 herbs	amod
11	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	They					like trees	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present	trees = tree	giant herbs					tree rules

Option 3

Bananas are made in factories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 factories	case
5	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Bananas		factories			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

Bananas grow in bunches on bushes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 bunches	case
4	bunches	bunch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 bushes	case
6	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Bananas			bunches		on bushes	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bunch=Location

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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