Test 11 · Trees and forests through the year

how'd u know how old that big tree stump is

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, that · What happens: know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 know	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 know	ccomp
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 old	nsubj
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stump	amod
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stump	compound
10	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	u						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	that					old property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Count the branches that grew from the trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 branches	det
3	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Count	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 branches	acl:relcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 trunk	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trunk	det
8	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	the branches					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme
2	grow	past	the branches					from the trunk	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from trunk=Patient

Option 2

Look at how dark the bark has gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 dark	case
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dark	advmod
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Look	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bark	det
6	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 dark	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here					at dark	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dark=Theme
2	go	present · perfect	the bark						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Measure how wide the stump is in metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Measure	measure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 wide	advmod
3	wide	wide	ADV	_	8 metres	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stump	det
5	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 metres	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 metres	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 metres	case
8	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Measure	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	imperative	you not said here						vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the stump			metres		wide property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Count the rings, about one ring for each year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rings	det
3	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Count	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ring	punct
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ring	nummod
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Count	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ring	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	the rings				one ring for each year obl	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme

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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