Test 9 · ★ · Deserts, rainforests and grasslands

Why can a rainforest grow so many different kinds of living things?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rainforest · What happens: grow · To what, where: many different kinds

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 grow	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rainforest	det
4	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 many	advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kinds	amod
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kinds	amod
9	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 things	case
11	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 things	amod
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kinds	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	can	a rainforest	many different kinds of living things					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kind=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It gets very little rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rain	amod
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	It	little rain					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rain=Stimulus

Option 2

It has the richest soil on Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soil	det
4	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 soil	amod
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 soil	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	the richest soil		Earth			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is warm and wet all year, so plants grow without stopping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 warm	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 warm	cop
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wet	cc
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 warm	conj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warm	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grow	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 grow	advmod
10	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grow	nsubj
11	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 warm	parataxis
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 stopping	mark
13	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 grow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	year	warm property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	grow	present	plants			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stop	gerund	plants not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

It has long cold winters that kill pests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 winters	amod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 winters	amod
5	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 kill	nsubj
7	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 winters	acl:relcl
8	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It				winter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	kill	present	long cold winters	pests					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pest=Theme

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