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Test 11 · Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of…

In a game, a plant character drinks sunlight like juice from a glass. What is closer to the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plant character · What happens: drink, be · To what, where: sunlight, game

This is test 11 of lesson 251 «Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air» 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 game, a plant character drinks sunlight like juice from a glass.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 game	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drinks	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 game	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 character	det
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 character	compound
7	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drinks	nsubj
8	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drinks	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 juice	case
11	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drinks	obl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 glass	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 glass	det
14	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 juice	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	a plant character	sunlight		a game		like juice from a glass	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=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 closer to the truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 closer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 closer	cop
3	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 truth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closer	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 closer	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Leaves really store the sunlight like juice inside them, to drink later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 store	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 store	advmod
3	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sunlight	det
5	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 store	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 juice	case
7	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 store	obl
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 store	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drink	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 drink	mark
12	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 store	conj
13	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 drink	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present	Leaves	the sunlight				like juice; inside them = they	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sunlight=Theme inside they=Location
2	drink	to-infinitive	Leaves not said here					late property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Only flowers use light, never leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 flowers	advmod
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 leaves	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 leaves	advmod
7	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 use	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	flowers	light					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient
2	not leave	present	flowers not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Plants do not use sunlight at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 use	advmod
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use	present · do-support	Plants	sunlight		all			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sunlight is the energy that powers a leaf's food making, not something it drinks

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 energy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 energy	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 energy	det
4	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 powers	nsubj
6	powers	power	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 energy	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 leaf	det
8	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 food	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 leaf	case
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 powers	obj
11	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 powers	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 something	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 something	advmod
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 energy	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drinks	nsubj
16	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 something	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sunlight	the energy					tree rules
2	power	present	the energy	a leaf's food					tree rules
3	make	gerund	the energy not said here						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	drink	present	Sunlight						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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