Exam question 3 · Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the potato.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, potato

This is exam question 3 of lesson 250 «Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 potato	det
11	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the potato		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus potato=Experiencer

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

It is a seed which germinates beneath the soil

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 seed	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seed	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 seed	det
4	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 germinates	nsubj
6	germinates	germinate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seed	acl:relcl
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 soil	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 soil	det
9	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 germinates	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a seed					tree rules
2	germinate	present	a seed					beneath the soil	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It is the fruit borne by the potato flower

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 fruit	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fruit	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fruit	det
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fruit	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 flower	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flower	det
8	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flower	compound
9	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 borne	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the fruit					tree rules
2	bear	participle		the fruit not said here				by the potato flower	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a swollen underground stem, or tuber, whose eyes are buds

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	6 stem	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stem	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stem	det
4	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stem	amod
5	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stem	amod
6	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tuber	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 tuber	cc
9	tuber	tuber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stem	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 buds	punct
11	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 buds	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 buds	cop
14	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stem	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a swollen underground stem or tuber and buds					tree rules
2	is a	present	buds's eyes	buds					tree rules

Option 4

It is a swollen root identical in kind to the carrot, though rounder in shape

The tree, 15 words

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 root	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 root	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 root	det
4	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 root	amod
5	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 root	amod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 kind	case
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identical	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 carrot	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 carrot	det
11	carrot	carrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kind	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rounder	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 rounder	mark
14	rounder	rounder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 root	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 shape	case
16	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rounder	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a swollen root and rounder in shape					tree rules

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