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title: A stump has a few very thin rings in a row. What probably happened i… — Trees and forests through the year · tree and pragmatics
description: A stump has a few very thin rings in a row. What probably happened in those years? Test 4 of lesson 76 «Trees and forests through the year» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 4 · Trees and forests through the year

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A stump has a few very thin rings in a row. What probably happened in those years?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stump · **What happens:** have, happen · **To what, where:** few thin rings, row

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This is test 4 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A stump has a few very thin rings in a row.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t4:1
# text = A stump has a few very thin rings in a row.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a stump | a few thin rings |  | a row |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What probably happened in those years?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t4:2
# text = What probably happened in those years?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  | year | probably *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Years with lots of rain and sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t4:o1:1
# text = Years with lots of rain and sun
1	Years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Dry or cold years with poor growth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t4:o2:1
# text = Dry or cold years with poor growth
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The tree was a different kind then

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t4:o3:1
# text = The tree was a different kind then
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the tree | a different kind |  |  | then |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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The tree grew extra tall then

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t4:o4:1
# text = The tree grew extra tall then
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	extra	extra	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the tree |  |  |  | then | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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