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Test 10 · Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck

In winter a flytrap kept in a warm, bright room never rests. What is likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: flytrap · What happens: keep, not rest, be · To what, where: flytrap, warm bright room

This is test 10 of lesson 254 «Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck» 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 winter a flytrap kept in a warm, bright room never rests.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 winter	case
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rests	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flytrap	det
4	flytrap	flytrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rests	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 flytrap	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	11 room	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 room	det
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 warm	punct
10	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 rests	advmod
13	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 rests	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle		a flytrap not said here		a warm bright room			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
2	not rest	present	a flytrap				winter		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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 is likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	cop
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 likely	punct

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

The options

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

It weakens, because it needs a cold winter rest

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 weakens	nsubj
2	weakens	weaken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 needs	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 needs	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 needs	nsubj
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 weakens	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rest	det
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rest	amod
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rest	compound
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weaken	present	It						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	need	present	it	a cold winter rest					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme

Option 2

It grows bigger than ever and flowers all through the winter

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	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 grows	xcomp
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 ever	case
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 bigger	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flowers	cc
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grows	conj
8	all	all	ADV	_	11 winter	advmod
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 winter	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 winter	det
11	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It				winter	big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It turns into a pitcher plant

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 plant	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plant	det
5	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plant	compound
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It			a pitcher plant			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into plant=Trajectory

Option 4

It starts catching mice

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 starts	nsubj
2	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	catching	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 starts	xcomp
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	It						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	catch	gerund		mice					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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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