Test 4 · Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck

What would happen if you watered a flytrap with tap water every day?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, water · To what, where: flytrap

This is test 4 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 watered	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 watered	nsubj
6	watered	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 flytrap	det
8	flytrap	flytrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watered	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 water	compound
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flytrap	nmod
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watered	obl:unmarked
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	water a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a flytrap			day	with tap water	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent flytrap=Destination with water=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.

The options

Option 1

It would stop needing insects

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	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	needing	need	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 needing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	need	gerund		insects					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot insect=Theme

Option 2

Nothing at all, any water is the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 same	punct
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 same	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 same	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Minerals in the tap water would slowly harm it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 harm	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 water	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
4	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Minerals	nmod
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 harm	aux
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 harm	advmod
8	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 harm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	would	Minerals in the tap water	water				slowly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would grow twice as fast as before and flower sooner

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	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 fast	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grow	advmod
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 before	case
8	before	before	ADV	_	6 fast	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flower	cc
10	flower	flower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	conj
11	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 flower	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	flower	present						soon property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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