Test 9 · Trees and forests through the year

Why is a tree stump like a diary?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: tree stump · What happens: be

This is test 9 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=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stump	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stump	compound
5	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 diary	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 diary	det
8	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stump	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a tree stump like a diary					why property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Its rings record each year's growth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 rings	nmod:poss
2	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 record	nsubj
3	record	record	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 growth	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 year	case
7	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 record	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	record	present	Its rings	each year's growth					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent growth=Theme
2	grow		each year						nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

It shows the weather of tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 weather	det
4	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 tomorrow	case
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weather	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It	the weather of tomorrow					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent weather=Recipient
2	weather			tomorrow					nom weather «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

It keeps leaves from every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeps	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 year	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	leaves			year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme

Option 4

It writes the names of animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 writes	nsubj
2	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 names	det
4	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 writes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 animals	case
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 names	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	It	the names of animals					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
2	name			animals					nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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