Test 9 · ★ · The seasons and the tilt of the axis
A plant grows best when the Sun is high and the days long. In which season will it grow fastest in the north?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plant, Sun · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: north
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 2 «The seasons and the tilt of the axis» of the world 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 plant grows best when the Sun is high and the days long.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 plant | det |
| 2 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | nsubj |
| 3 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 grows | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 high | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 high | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 high | cop |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grows | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 long | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 days | det |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 long | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 high | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | a plant | well property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Sun | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the Sun not said here | day | tree rules |
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: In which season will it grow fastest in the north?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 season | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 season | det |
| 3 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grow | obl |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 grow | aux |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grow | nsubj |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | fastest | fast | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 grow | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 north | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 north | det |
| 10 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grow | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 grow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | future | Sun | the north | season | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in north=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Late autumn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 autumn | amod |
| 2 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The season makes no difference
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 season | det |
| 2 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 difference | det |
| 5 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the season | no difference | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Summer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Winter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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