Test 2 · Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push

«mum's potatoes have got shoots and green bits, just cook em» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: potatoes · What happens: get, cook, be · To what, where: shoots, em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 potatoes	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mum	case
4	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 got	aux
6	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 right	parataxis
7	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bits	cc
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bits	amod
10	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shoots	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cook	punct
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 cook	advmod
13	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 got	conj
14	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cook	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · perfect	mum's potatoes	shoots and green bits		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shoot=Stimulus
2	cook in a quote	infinitive	mum's potatoes not said here	em = they		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	is	present			right 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.

The options

Option 1

Green just means they are ripe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 means	advmod
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ripe	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ripe	cop
6	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Green						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	they					ripe property	tree rules

Option 2

Green potatoes are the healthiest kind, full of vitamins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 potatoes	amod
2	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kind	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kind	det
5	healthiest	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 kind	amod
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 full	punct
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kind	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 vitamins	case
10	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Green potatoes	the healthiest kind					tree rules

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

Do not eat the green parts, they are poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parts	det
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 parts	amod
6	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 poisonous	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 poisonous	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 poisonous	cop
10	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	imperative · do-support	you not said here	the green parts					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient
2	is	present	parts = part					poisonous property	tree rules

Option 4

The shoots are the tastiest part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shoots	det
2	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 part	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 part	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 part	det
5	tastiest	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 part	amod
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the shoots	the tastiest part					tree rules

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