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Test 4 · ★ · Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bee…

A garden is full of red flowers. Which visitors are most likely pollinating them?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: garden, visitors · What happens: be, pollinate · To what, where: flowers

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 232 «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» 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 garden is full of red flowers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 garden	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 flowers	case
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flowers	amod
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a garden					of red flowers; full property	tree rules

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: Which visitors are most likely pollinating them?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 visitors	det
2	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pollinating	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pollinating	aux
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 pollinating	advmod
6	pollinating	pollinate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pollinating	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pollinating	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pollinate	present · progressive	which visitors	flowers = flower				likely property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Nobody, red flowers need no pollen moved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 need	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flowers	amod
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 pollen	det
7	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
8	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Nobody	no pollen					tree rules
2	move not said to happen	participle	no pollen not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Only bees, since red is their favourite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 bees	advmod
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 favourite	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bees	punct
4	since	since	ADP	_	5 red	case
5	red	red	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bees	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 favourite	cop
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 favourite	nmod:poss
8	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	bees since red					favourite property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Moles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moles	mole	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Birds, because bees see red poorly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 see	mark
4	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Birds	acl:relcl
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 see	obj
7	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	5 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	bees	red				poorly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus

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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