Test 13 · Trees and forests through the year

my brother reckons trees breathe in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide when they make food. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, trees · What happens: reckon, breathe, give out, make · To what, where: oxygen, carbon dioxide, food

This is test 13 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 breathe	nsubj
5	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reckons	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 oxygen	case
7	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breathe	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 give	cc
9	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 breathe	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 give	compound:prt
11	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dioxide	compound
12	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 make	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	nsubj
15	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 give	advcl
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
18	right	right	INTJ	_	3 reckons	discourse
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reckon	present	my brother			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	breathe	infinitive	trees		oxygen	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give out	present	trees not said here	carbon dioxide		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent dioxide=Theme
4	make	present	trees = tree	food		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product

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

No, trees make food without any gases at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
6	without	without	ADP	_	8 gases	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 gases	det
8	gases	gas	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	trees	food		all		without any gases	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product

Option 2

Yes, but only at night when it is dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 night	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 night	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 night	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 dark	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dark	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dark	cop
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					dark property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, trees make food from oxygen in the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 oxygen	case
7	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	trees	food		oxygen		in the air	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from oxygen=Material

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, when they make food they take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 make	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	nsubj
8	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 take	compound:prt
10	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dioxide	compound
11	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 give	cc
13	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 give	compound:prt
15	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	present	they	food	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product
2	take in	present	they	carbon dioxide	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dioxide=Theme
3	give out	present	they not said here	oxygen	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent oxygen=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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