Test 12 · ★★ · Map reading puzzles

my scout leader said moss always grows on the north side of trees. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: scout leader, moss · What happens: say, grow · To what, where: north side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 49 «Map reading puzzles» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 leader	nmod:poss
2	scout	scout	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leader	compound
3	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grows	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 grows	advmod
7	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 side	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 side	det
10	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 side	amod
11	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grows	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 trees	case
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 side	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grows	punct
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grows	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my scout leader						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow	present	moss			the north side of trees		always, true property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, moss grows on any side, so it is no good guide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 grows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grows	punct
3	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 side	det
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 guide	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	14 guide	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 guide	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 guide	cop
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 guide	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 guide	amod
14	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	moss			any side			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
2	is a	present	moss	no good guide					tree rules

Option 2

No, moss always grows on the south side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 grows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grows	punct
3	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grows	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 grows	advmod
5	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 side	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 side	det
8	south	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 side	amod
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	moss			the south side		always property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location

Option 3

Yes, but only in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 winter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 winter	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 winter	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, that is the best way to find north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 way	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 find	mark
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 way	acl
10	north	north	ADV	_	9 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the best way					tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive						north property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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