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Test 8 · Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push

You turn a pot plant round on the windowsill so the plant leans away from the window. What happens over the next days?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, plant · What happens: turn, lean away, happen · To what, where: pot plant, windowsill, window

This is test 8 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: You turn a pot plant round on the windowsill so the plant leans away from the window.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plant	det
4	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plant	compound
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obj
6	round	round	ADV	_	2 turn	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 windowsill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 windowsill	det
9	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obl
10	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 leans	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plant	det
12	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leans	nsubj
13	leans	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turn	advcl
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 leans	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 window	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 window	det
17	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leans	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	You	a pot plant		the windowsill		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plant=Theme
2	lean away	present	the plant			the window		away property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 happens over the next days?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	6 days	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 days	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happens	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present					day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It keeps leaning away from the light

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	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 leaning	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 light	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It						tree rules
2	lean away	gerund				the light		away property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It bends back towards the light

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	2 bends	nsubj
2	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 bends	advmod
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 light	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend back	present	It			the light			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards light=Location

Option 3

It grows straight down into 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	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 down	advmod
4	down	down	ADV	_	2 grows	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 soil	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soil	det
7	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It					into the soil result; down property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into soil=Result

Option 4

It falls over in the pot and dies

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	2 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	2 falls	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pot	det
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falls	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dies	cc
8	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 falls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall over	present	It			the pot		over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pot=Location
2	die	present							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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