Test 11 · Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying s…

Why might a chilli plant «want» birds but not mammals to eat its fruit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: chilli plant · What happens: want, eat · To what, where: birds, fruit

This is test 11 of lesson 255 «Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe» 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	7 want	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plant	det
4	chilli	chilli	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plant	amod
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 want	obj
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 mammals	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 mammals	advmod
12	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 birds	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 eat	mark
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 birds	acl
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fruit	nmod:poss
16	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eat	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	might	a chilli plant	birds but mammals					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bird=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	a chilli plant not said here	plant's fruit					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient

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

Birds give the plant water in return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 return	case
7	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Birds	the plant water		return			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2

Mammals cannot reach the fruit anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reach	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reach	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 reach	advmod
4	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fruit	det
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reach	obj
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 reach	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	can	Mammals	the fruit				anyway property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme

Option 3

Birds are smaller, so they eat less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smaller	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 smaller	cop
3	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 eat	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 smaller	advcl
8	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Birds					small property	tree rules
2	eat	present	Birds = bird					less property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Birds feel no burn and spread the seeds whole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feel	nsubj
2	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 burn	det
4	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feel	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spread	cc
6	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feel	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seeds	det
8	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spread	obj
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spread	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Birds	no burn					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burn=Theme
2	spread	infinitive	Birds not said here	the seeds				whole property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=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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