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Test 12 · Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push

The roots of a single rye plant were measured end to end. About how long were they?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: roots · What happens: measure, be · To what, where: roots

This is test 12 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: The roots of a single rye plant were measured end to end.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roots	det
2	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 measured	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 plant	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plant	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plant	amod
6	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plant	compound
7	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roots	nmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 measured	aux:pass
9	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 measured	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 end	case
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 measured	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 measured	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	past · passive		the roots of a single rye plant			to end		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: About how long were they?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADP	_	3 long	case
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 long	conj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 were	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	roots = root						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Over 600 kilometres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Over	over	ADV	_	2 600	advmod
2	600	600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 kilometres	nummod
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Exactly as tall as the plant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 tall	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 tall	advmod
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 plant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plant	det
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tall	obl

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

Option 3

About 60 metres in all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 60	advmod
2	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 metres	nummod
3	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 metres	nmod

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

Option 4

Only about 6 centimetres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 6	advmod
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 6	advmod
3	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 centimetres	nummod
4	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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