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Test 10 · ★★ · Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and gi…

A scientist plays a recording of wind to one plant and of caterpillars chewing to another. Which most likely makes more defence chemicals?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scientist, caterpillars · What happens: play, chew, make · To what, where: recording, defence chemicals

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 252 «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones» 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 scientist plays a recording of wind to one plant and of caterpillars chewing to another.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 scientist	det
2	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plays	nsubj
3	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 recording	det
5	recording	recording	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plays	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wind	case
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recording	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 plant	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 plant	nummod
10	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plays	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 caterpillars	cc
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 caterpillars	case
13	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 plant	conj
14	chewing	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 caterpillars	acl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 another	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 chewing	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 plays	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	a scientist	a recording of wind				to one plant and caterpillars	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recording=Theme
2	chew	gerund	caterpillars not said here					to another	vn chew-39.2 «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: Which most likely makes more defence chemicals?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 makes	obj
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 likely	advmod
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 makes	advmod
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 defence	amod
6	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chemicals	compound
7	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		defence chemicals				likely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset which=Beneficiary chemical=Product

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The one that heard the chewing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chewing	det
6	chewing	chewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the one	the chewing					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer chewing=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Neither, plants cannot respond to vibrations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 respond	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 respond	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 respond	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 respond	advmod
6	respond	respond	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 vibrations	case
8	vibrations	vibration	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 respond	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not respond speech: other	can	plants					to vibrations; neither property	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to vibration=Theme

Option 3

The one that heard the wind blowing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 wind	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the one	the wind					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wind=Stimulus
2	blow	gerund	the wind not said here						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Both make exactly the same amount

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 amount	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 amount	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 amount	amod
6	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Both	the same amount					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amount=Product

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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