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Test 4 · Trees and forests through the year

A stump has a few very thin rings in a row. What probably happened in those years?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stump · What happens: have, happen · To what, where: few thin rings, row

This is test 4 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

Sentence 1: A stump has a few very thin rings in a row.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stump	det
2	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rings	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rings	amod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 thin	advmod
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rings	amod
8	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 row	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 row	det
11	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rings	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a stump	a few thin rings		a row			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: What probably happened in those years?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happened	nsubj
2	probably	probably	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 years	det
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happened	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past					year	probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Years with lots of rain and sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 lots	case
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Years	nmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 rain	case
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lots	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sun	cc
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rain	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Dry or cold years with poor growth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 cold	cc
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Dry	conj
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 growth	case
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 growth	amod
7	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The tree was a different kind then

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	6 kind	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kind	amod
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 kind	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the tree	a different kind			then		tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The tree grew extra tall then

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 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	extra	extra	ADV	_	5 tall	advmod
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 grew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the tree				then	tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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