Test 5 · Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck

«gave my flytrap a bit of burger, it's a meat eater so it'll love it» What is best?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bit · What happens: give, be, love · To what, where: flytrap, meat eater · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 flytrap	nmod:poss
4	flytrap	flytrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 burger	case
8	burger	burger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eater	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eater	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 eater	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 eater	det
13	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eater	compound
14	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	parataxis
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 love	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 love	nsubj
17	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 love	aux
18	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 eater	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 love	obj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 love	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 best	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 best	cop
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 love	parataxis
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	past		my flytrap		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent flytrap=Recipient bit=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	bit	a meat eater		tree rules
3	love in a quote	future	bit	flytrap		tree rules
4	is	present			good property	tree rules

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

No, flytraps eat only vegetables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	flytraps	flytrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 vegetables	advmod
6	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	flytraps	vegetables					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vegetable=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it cannot digest fat, and the trap may rot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 digest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 digest	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 digest	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 digest	advmod
6	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 digest	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rot	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rot	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trap	det
11	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rot	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 rot	aux
13	rot	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 digest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not digest	can	it	fat					tree rules
2	rot	may	the trap						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Yes, a burger is its perfect food, full of meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 food	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 burger	det
4	burger	burger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 food	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 food	cop
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 food	nmod:poss
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 food	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 full	punct
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 food	amod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 meat	case
12	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a burger	burger's perfect food					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, but only if the burger is cooked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 cooked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 cooked	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 cooked	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 cooked	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 burger	det
7	burger	burger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cooked	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cooked	aux:pass
9	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	present · passive		the burger					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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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