Test 10 · The city as a habitat

Why does a dandelion do well in a crack where nothing else grows?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: nothing · What happens: do, grow · To what, where: dandelion

This is test 10 of lesson 14 «The city as a habitat» 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	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dandelion	det
4	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	parataxis
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 do	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 crack	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crack	det
9	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 well	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 grows	advmod
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 grows	nsubj
12	else	else	ADV	_	11 nothing	advmod
13	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 crack	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		a dandelion		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dandelion=Eventuality
2	do	present			well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grow	present	nothing			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

People water it every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 water	compound
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	nsubj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 day	nsubj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No other plants compete, and its long root finds water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 plants	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plants	amod
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 compete	nsubj
4	compete	compete	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 finds	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 finds	cc
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 root	nmod:poss
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 root	amod
9	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 finds	nsubj
10	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 compete	conj
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 finds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compete	present	no other plants						vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	present	its long root	water					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic

Option 3

The pavement gives it extra food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pavement	det
2	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gives	obj
5	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	the pavement	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient food=Theme

Option 4

The cracks are kept warm by the cars driving past all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cracks	det
2	cracks	crack	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 cars	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cars	det
8	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obl
9	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 cars	acl
10	past	past	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 driving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		the cracks				by the cars; warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by car=Location
2	drive	gerund	the cars not said here				day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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