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

«nan says potatoes are roots, same as carrots» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan, potatoes, carrots · What happens: say, be · To what, where: roots · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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	_	3 says	punct
2	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 roots	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 roots	cop
6	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 same	punct
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 roots	amod
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 carrots	case
10	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 same	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 carrots	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 carrots	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	nan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	potatoes	roots		tree rules
3	is	present	carrots		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

No, both are fruits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 fruits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fruits	det
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fruits	cop
5	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		both fruits					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, both are roots that grow in the soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 roots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 roots	det
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 roots	cop
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 grow	nsubj
7	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 roots	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 soil	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soil	det
10	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grow	obl

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

Option 3

Yes, but potatoes are older roots that have grown fat and round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 grown	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 roots	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 roots	cc
4	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 roots	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 roots	cop
6	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 roots	amod
7	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grown	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 grown	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grown	aux
10	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grown	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 round	cc
13	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	potatoes	older roots					tree rules
2	grow	present · perfect	that					fat property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, a potato is a swollen stem, a carrot is a root

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 stem	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 potato	det
4	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stem	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stem	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stem	det
7	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stem	amod
8	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 root	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 carrot	det
11	carrot	carrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 root	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 root	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 root	det
14	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stem	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a potato	a swollen stem					tree rules
2	is a	present	a carrot	a root					tree rules

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