Test 6 · Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower…
A girl finds a big flower with no leaves and no stem growing out of a vine. What is most likely true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, stem · What happens: find, grow out, be · To what, where: big flower, vine
This is test 6 of lesson 161 «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes» 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: A girl finds a big flower with no leaves and no stem growing out of a vine.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 flower | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flower | amod |
| 6 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 leaves | case |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 leaves | det |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 finds | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stem | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 stem | det |
| 12 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaves | conj |
| 13 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 stem | acl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 vine | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 vine | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 vine | det |
| 17 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 growing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | a girl | a big flower | with no leaves and no stem | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic | |||
| 2 | grow out | gerund | no stem not said here | a vine | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vine=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 is most likely true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 5 true | advmod |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely, true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It is a fake flower made of plastic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flower | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 flower | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flower | det |
| 4 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flower | amod |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 flower | acl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 plastic | case |
| 8 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a fake flower | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a fake flower not said here | of plastic | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 2
It has fallen off a tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fallen | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fallen | aux |
| 3 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fallen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall off | present · perfect | It | a tree | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient tree=Extent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
It makes all its own food from sunlight in its big red petals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 food | det:predet |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 food | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 food | amod |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 sunlight | case |
| 8 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 petals | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 petals | nmod:poss |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 petals | amod |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 petals | amod |
| 13 | petals | petal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 makes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | its own food | sunlight | in sunlight's big red petals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It is a parasite getting its food from the vine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 parasite | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 parasite | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 parasite | det |
| 4 | parasite | parasite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 parasite | acl |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 food | nmod:poss |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 getting | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 vine | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vine | det |
| 10 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 getting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a parasite | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | gerund | a parasite not said here | parasite's food | the vine | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from vine=Source |
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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