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Test 1 · Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push

In a cartoon a rabbit picks carrots off a tree like apples. What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rabbit · What happens: pick, be · To what, where: carrots, cartoon

This is test 1 of lesson 250 «Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push» 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: In a cartoon a rabbit picks carrots off a tree like apples.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picks	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rabbit	det
5	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picks	nsubj
6	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 picks	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picks	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 apples	case
12	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 picks	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 picks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	present	a rabbit	carrots		a cartoon		off a tree; like apples	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient

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 right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Carrots grow on trees in the summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 trees	case
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 summer	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 summer	det
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Carrots			trees	summer		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location

Option 2

Carrots are underground stems like potatoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stems	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stems	cop
3	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stems	amod
4	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 potatoes	case
6	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stems	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Carrots	underground stems				like potatoes	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A carrot is a root that grows under the soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 carrot	det
2	carrot	carrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 root	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 root	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 root	det
5	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 grows	nsubj
7	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 root	acl:relcl
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 soil	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soil	det
10	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a carrot	a root					tree rules
2	grow	present	a root			the soil			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under soil=Location

Option 4

Carrots are the seeds of a flower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seeds	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seeds	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seeds	det
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 flower	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flower	det
7	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Carrots	the seeds				of a flower	tree rules

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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