Test 12 · Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs

why do bog plants bother eating flies, they got leaves innit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bog plants, plants · What happens: bother, eat, get · To what, where: eating flies, leaves innit

This is test 12 of lesson 11 «Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 bother	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bother	aux
3	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plants	compound
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bother	nsubj
5	bother	bother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 got	advcl
6	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 flies	amod
7	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bother	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bother	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 innit	compound
12	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bother	present · do-support	bog plants	eating flies	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fly=Experiencer
2	eat	gerund			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	past	plants = plant	leaves innit	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer innit=Stimulus

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

Their leaves make food from light, but the bog soil lacks nitrogen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 leaves	nmod:poss
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 light	case
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lacks	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 lacks	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soil	det
10	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 soil	compound
11	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lacks	nsubj
12	lacks	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj
13	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lacks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Their leaves	food		light			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from light=Material
2	lack	present	the bog soil	nitrogen					tree rules

Option 2

Flies give them water in dry summers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 give	iobj
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 summers	case
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 summers	amod
7	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Flies	water	them = they		summer		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient water=Theme

Option 3

They have no leaves and must eat to live

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 leaves	det
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 eat	cc
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 live	mark
9	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 eat	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	They	no leaves	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	eat	must	They not said here		tree rules
3	live	to-infinitive	They not said here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They only eat flies to stop the flies from stinging them and their flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stop	mark
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 eat	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flies	det
8	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stop	obj
9	from	from	SCONJ	_	10 stinging	mark
10	stinging	sting	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 stop	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stinging	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flowers	cc
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 flowers	nmod:poss
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 them	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	present	They	flies	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient
2	stop	to-infinitive	They not said here	the flies	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fly=Eventuality
3	sting	gerund	They not said here	flies = fly	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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