Test 6 · Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying s…

How can the same foxglove be both a poison and a medicine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: same foxglove · What happens: be · To what, where: poison

This is test 6 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 poison	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 poison	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 foxglove	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 foxglove	amod
5	foxglove	foxglove	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poison	nsubj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 poison	cop
7	both	both	CCONJ	_	9 poison	cc:preconj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 poison	det
9	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 medicine	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 medicine	det
12	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poison	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 poison	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can	the same foxglove	a poison and a medicine					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 · ← Mova's choice

Only doctors are safe from its poison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 doctors	advmod
2	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 safe	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	cop
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 poison	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 poison	nmod:poss
7	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 safe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	doctors			its poison		safe property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The amount decides: a careful dose helps, too much harms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 amount	det
2	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decides	nsubj
3	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 helps	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dose	det
6	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dose	amod
7	dose	dose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helps	nsubj
8	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 decides	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 harms	punct
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 harms	nsubj
12	harms	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 decides	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	decide	present	the amount	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	help	present	a careful dose	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	harm	present	much	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

The flowers are medicine and the stalks poison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flowers	det
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 medicine	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 medicine	cop
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 poison	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 poison	det
7	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 poison	compound
8	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 medicine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the flowers	medicine and the stalks poison					tree rules

Option 4

It is poison in summer and medicine in winter

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 poison	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poison	cop
3	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 summer	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poison	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 medicine	cc
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poison	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 winter	case
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poison	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	poison and medicine			summer; winter		tree rules

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