Test 10 · Trees and forests through the year

why do leaves go all orange in autumn

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: leaves · What happens: go

This is test 10 of lesson 76 «Trees and forests through the year» 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	4 go	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 orange	advmod
6	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 autumn	case
8	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · do-support	leaves				autumn	orange property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

The sun burns the leaves at the end of summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burns	nsubj
3	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burns	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burns	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 summer	case
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	the sun	the leaves			at the end of summer		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme

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

The green chlorophyll breaks down, so other colours show

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chlorophyll	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chlorophyll	amod
3	chlorophyll	chlorophyll	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breaks	nsubj
4	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 breaks	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 show	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 show	advmod
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 colours	amod
9	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 show	nsubj
10	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 breaks	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break down	present	the green chlorophyll						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	show	present	other colours						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The tree fills the leaves with orange juice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fills	nsubj
3	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fills	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 juice	case
7	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 juice	amod
8	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fills	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	present	the tree	the leaves				with orange juice	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient with juice=Instrument

Option 4

The cold paints the leaves orange overnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 paints	nsubj
3	paints	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paints	obj
6	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leaves	amod
7	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	3 paints	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present	the cold	the leaves				overnight property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Destination

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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