--- title: Which tree keeps its leaves green through a snowy winter? — Trees and forests through the year · tree and pragmatics description: Which tree keeps its leaves green through a snowy winter? Test 8 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Trees and forests through the year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/) / t8 # 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t8:1 # text = Which tree keeps its leaves green through a snowy winter? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 green green VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 through through ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 snowy snowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Maple ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t8:o1:1 # text = Maple 1 Maple maple NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Oak ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t8:o2:1 # text = Oak 1 Oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Spruce ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t8:o3:1 # text = Spruce 1 Spruce spruce NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Birch ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year:t8:o4:1 # text = Birch 1 Birch birch NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. - ← previous: [Trees and forests through the year, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/t7/) - next →: [Trees and forests through the year, test 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/t9/) - ↑ back to [Trees and forests through the year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/)