Test 6 · Trees and forests through the year

Why is it hard for small plants to grow under a thick canopy?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: small plants · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: thick canopy

This is test 6 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 hard	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hard	expl
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 grow	mark
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plants	amod
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grow	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 grow	mark
9	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	ccomp
10	under	under	ADP	_	13 canopy	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 canopy	det
12	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 canopy	amod
13	canopy	canopy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						hard property	tree rules
2	grow	to-infinitive	small plants			a thick canopy			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under canopy=Location

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 canopy makes the soil too salty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 canopy	det
2	canopy	canopy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soil	det
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 salty	advmod
7	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the canopy	the soil				salty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soil=Product

Option 2

The canopy keeps all the rain for itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 canopy	det
2	canopy	canopy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 rain	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rain	det
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the canopy	all rain				for canopy	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The tall trees block most of the light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 block	nsubj
4	block	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 block	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 light	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 light	det
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	present	the tall trees	most of the light					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer most=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The tall trees eat the small plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plants	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plants	amod
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the tall trees	the small plants					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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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