Test 8 · Trees and forests through the year

Which tree keeps its leaves green through a snowy winter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tree, leaves · What happens: keep, green

This is test 8 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 leaves	nmod:poss
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 green	nsubj
6	green	green	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keeps	ccomp
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 winter	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 winter	det
9	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 winter	amod
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 green	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	which tree						tree rules
2	green	present	tree's leaves				winter		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Maple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maple	maple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Spruce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spruce	spruce	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Birch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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