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title: What would make it hard for a tree to grow much taller than Hyperion? — Trees · tree and pragmatics
description: What would make it hard for a tree to grow much taller than Hyperion? Test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Trees» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Trees

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What would make it hard for a tree to grow much taller than Hyperion?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** make, grow · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Trees» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/60-trees/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:60-trees:t3:1
# text = What would make it hard for a tree to grow much taller than Hyperion?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Hyperion	Hyperion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would |  | it |  |  |  | for a tree; hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary it=Product for tree=Asset |
| 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Lifting water so high up to the top leaves gets too hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:60-trees:t3:o1:1
# text = Lifting water so high up to the top leaves gets too hard
1	Lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
10	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | gerund |  | water |  | the top leaves |  | high *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme up leaf=Destination |
| 2 | **get** | present | Lifting |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Birds would not land on it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:60-trees:t3:o2:1
# text = Birds would not land on it
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **land** | would | Birds |  |  | it |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The clouds would push it down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:60-trees:t3:o3:1
# text = The clouds would push it down
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push down** | would | the clouds | it |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The bark would get far too heavy for the trunk to hold up any longer

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:60-trees:t3:o4:1
# text = The bark would get far too heavy for the trunk to hold up any longer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	any	any	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | the bark |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hold up** | to-infinitive | the bark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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**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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