Test 9 · Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck

«darwin fed plants?? sounds made up» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: feed, make up, be · To what, where: sounds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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	_	6 sounds	punct
2	darwin	darwin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plants	compound
3	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 plants	amod
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sounds	nmod:poss
5	??	??	PART	_	4 plants	case
6	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sounds	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 made	compound:prt
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 made	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sounds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feed in a quote	participle			vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	make up in a quote	participle	darwin fed plants's sounds not said here		tree rules
3	is	present		right 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

He fed them only bread and milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	nsubj
2	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 bread	advmod
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 milk	cc
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bread	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	He	them = they				bread and milk obl	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 2

It is a joke from an old cartoon about a hungry 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	4 joke	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 joke	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 cartoon	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cartoon	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cartoon	amod
8	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joke	nmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 plant	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 plant	det
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plant	amod
12	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cartoon	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a joke		a old cartoon about a hungry plant			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It was his cat that fed them

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	4 cat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cat	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cat	nmod:poss
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fed	nsubj
6	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cat	acl:relcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	his cat					tree rules
2	feed	past	his cat	them = they					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is true; he tested sundews with bits of meat and hair

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 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 tested	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tested	nsubj
6	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 true	conj
7	sundews	sundew	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tested	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 bits	case
9	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tested	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 meat	case
11	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bits	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hair	cc
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	test	past	he	sundews				with bits of meat and hair	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sundew=Theme

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