Exam question 3 · Trees and forests through the year

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning evergreen trees.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, evergreen trees

This is exam question 3 of lesson 76 «Trees and forests through the year» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	evergreen	evergreen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trees	amod
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 concerning	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	evergreen trees		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tree=Experiencer

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

They lose all their leaves each autumn

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 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 leaves	det:predet
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 leaves	nmod:poss
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lose	obj
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 autumn	det
7	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	They	their leaves			autumn		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Eventuality

Option 2

They lose all their leaves each spring

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 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 leaves	det:predet
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 leaves	nmod:poss
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lose	obj
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 spring	det
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	They	their leaves			spring		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They retain leaves all year, losing old ones little by little

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 retain	nsubj
2	retain	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 retain	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 retain	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 losing	punct
7	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 retain	advcl
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 losing	obj
10	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 losing	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 little	case
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 losing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retain	present	They	leaves			year		tree rules
2	lose	gerund	They not said here	old ones				by little; little property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality

Option 4

They bear no leaves of any kind

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 bear	nsubj
2	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 leaves	det
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bear	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 kind	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 kind	det
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present	They	no leaves of any kind					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

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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