Test 8 · Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of…
A gardener keeps a plant with white and green leaves next to an all-green one in the same pot size and light. What will most likely happen?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gardener · What happens: keep, happen · To what, where: plant
This is test 8 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: A gardener keeps a plant with white and green leaves next to an all-green one in the same pot size and light.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gardener | det |
| 2 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plant | det |
| 5 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 leaves | case |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 leaves | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 green | cc |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 white | conj |
| 10 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keeps | obl |
| 11 | next | next | ADV | _ | 17 one | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 one | det |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 all | punct |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 size | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 size | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 size | amod |
| 21 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 size | compound |
| 22 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 one | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 light | cc |
| 24 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 size | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | a gardener | a plant | with white leaves | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme |
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 will most likely happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 5 happen | advmod |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | future | likely property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The white and green one grows faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 green | cc |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 white | conj |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grows | nsubj |
| 6 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 grows | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the white one | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
They grow at exactly the same speed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 speed | case |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 speed | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 speed | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 speed | amod |
| 7 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | They | the same speed | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location |
Option 3
The white parts turn green by next week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 parts | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 parts | amod |
| 3 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 turn | xcomp |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 week | case |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 week | amod |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | the white parts | week | green property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The all-green one grows faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 one | det |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grows | nsubj |
| 6 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 grows | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the green one | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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