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Test 7 · Trees and forests through the year

A hillside lost all its trees. What is likely to happen in heavy rain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hillside · What happens: lose, be, happen · To what, where: trees, heavy rain

This is test 7 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 hillside lost all its trees.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hillside	det
2	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hillside	acl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 trees	det:predet
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 trees	nmod:poss
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hillside	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle	a hillside not said here	hillside's trees					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Eventuality

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 is likely to happen in heavy rain?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	cop
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 happen	mark
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 likely	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 rain	case
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rain	amod
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happen	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						likely property	tree rules
2	happen	to-infinitive				heavy rain			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in rain=Location

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, trees do not affect soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 trees	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 affect	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 affect	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 affect	advmod
6	affect	affect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 affect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not affect	present · do-support	Nothing trees	soil					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soil=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Soil will wash away down the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wash	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wash	aux
3	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 wash	advmod
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 hill	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hill	det
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash away	future	Soil					down the hill; away property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The soil will hold more water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soil	det
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	aux
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	future	the soil	more water					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 4

The hill will grow new rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hill	det
2	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rocks	amod
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	future	the hill	new rocks					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=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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