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Test 8 · ★★ · Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and gi…

You mow the lawn and smell the grass. What is going on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: mow, smell, go on · To what, where: lawn, grass

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: You mow the lawn and smell the grass.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 mow	nsubj
2	mow	mow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lawn	det
4	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mow	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 smell	cc
6	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 mow	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grass	det
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smell	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mow	present	You	the lawn					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lawn=Patient
2	smell	present	You not said here	the grass					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grass=Stimulus

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 going on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 going	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 going	compound:prt
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive							vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hurt grass is giving off chemical signals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hurt	hurt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grass	amod
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 giving	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 giving	aux
4	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 giving	compound:prt
6	chemical	chemical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 signals	amod
7	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give off	present · progressive	Hurt grass	chemical signals					vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source signal=Theme

Option 2

The grass is making a sweet perfume for people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grass	det
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 making	aux
4	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 perfume	det
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 perfume	amod
7	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 making	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · progressive	the grass	a sweet perfume				for people	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent perfume=Product for people=Beneficiary

Option 3

The hot mower blades are cooking the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 blades	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blades	amod
3	mower	mower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blades	compound
4	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cooking	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cooking	aux
6	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grass	det
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cooking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	present · progressive	the hot mower blades	the grass					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

Option 4

Worms under the lawn are breathing out the smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 breathing	nsubj
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 lawn	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lawn	det
4	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Worms	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 breathing	aux
6	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 breathing	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 smell	det
9	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breathing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe out	present · progressive	Worms under the lawn	the smell					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Theme

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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