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Test 2 · What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in

Ellie swaps the plants in the garden centre: the cactus into the pond, the water lily into a pot of dry sand. What happens?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ellie · What happens: swap, happen · To what, where: plants, garden centre

This is test 2 of lesson 1 «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Ellie swaps the plants in the garden centre: the cactus into the pond, the water lily into a pot of dry sand.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 swaps	nsubj
2	swaps	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plants	det
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swaps	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 centre	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 centre	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 centre	compound
8	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swaps	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 cactus	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cactus	det
11	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swaps	parataxis
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 pond	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pond	det
14	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cactus	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lily	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lily	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lily	compound
18	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cactus	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 pot	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pot	det
21	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lily	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 sand	case
23	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sand	amod
24	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pot	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 swaps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	present	Ellie	the plants		the garden centre			vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: What happens?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Both grow better, because they get a change of home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 grow	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 get	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 change	det
9	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 home	case
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 change	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Both					well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	present	they	a change of home					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus
3	change		home						nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Both slowly change into the other kind of plant over a few weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	nsubj
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 change	advmod
3	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 kind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kind	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kind	amod
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 plant	case
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 weeks	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 weeks	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 weeks	amod
13	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Both				week	into the other kind of plant result; slowly property	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into kind=Result

Option 3

Only the water lily dies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 lily	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lily	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lily	compound
4	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dies	nsubj
5	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	the water lily						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Both die: the cactus rots and the water lily shrivels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 die	nsubj
2	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 rots	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cactus	det
5	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rots	nsubj
6	rots	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 die	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shrivels	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lily	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lily	compound
10	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shrivels	nsubj
11	shrivels	shrivel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rots	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	Both						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	rot	present	the cactus						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	shrivel	present	the water lily						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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