Test 8 · Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck

Why might a carnivorous plant help a bog plant more than a garden plant?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: carnivorous plant · What happens: help · To what, where: bog plant

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 help	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 help	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plant	det
4	carnivorous	carnivorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plant	amod
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	nsubj
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plant	det
8	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plant	compound
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	obj
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 plant	amod
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 plant	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 plant	det
13	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plant	compound
14	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 more	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	might	a carnivorous plant	a bog plant					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Beneficiary

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 · ← Mova's choice

Garden plants are too lazy to catch insects for food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plants	compound
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lazy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lazy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 lazy	advmod
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 catch	mark
7	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lazy	xcomp
8	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 catch	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 food	case
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Garden plants					lazy property	tree rules
2	catch	to-infinitive	Garden plants not said here	insects				for food	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent insect=Theme for food=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Bog soil has little nitrogen, and insects bring some in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soil	compound
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nitrogen	amod
5	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bring	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bring	cc
8	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bring	nsubj
9	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 bring	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	9 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Bog soil	little nitrogen					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nitrogen=Patient
2	bring	present	insects	some					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent some=Theme

Option 3

Bog plants have no leaves for sunlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plants	compound
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 sunlight	case
7	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Bog plants	no leaves				for sunlight	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 4

Insects only live near bogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	5 bogs	case
5	bogs	bog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Insects			bogs			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near bog=Location

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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