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Test 10 · The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life

A paramecium bumps into a stone. With no brain, what can it do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: paramecium · What happens: bump, do · To what, where: stone

This is test 10 of lesson 256 «The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life» 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

Sentence 1: A paramecium bumps into a stone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 paramecium	det
2	paramecium	paramecium	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bumps	nsubj
3	bumps	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 stone	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bumps	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bumps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bump	present	a paramecium			a stone			vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into stone=Location

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.

Sentence 2: With no brain, what can it do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 brain	case
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 brain	det
3	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	paramecium					with no brain	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Grow a brain to think about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 brain	det
3	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grow	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Grow	advcl
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	imperative	you not said here	a brain					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brain=Theme
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here					about brain	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Call for help from all the other cells close by

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 help	case
3	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Call	obl
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	9 close	mark
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 cells	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cells	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cells	amod
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 close	nsubj
9	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Call	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	9 close	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here					for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient
2	close	present	all other cells						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Reverse its tiny hairs and swim another way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reverse	reverse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hairs	nmod:poss
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hairs	amod
4	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Reverse	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 swim	cc
6	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Reverse	conj
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swim	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reverse	imperative	you not said here	its tiny hairs					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	swim	infinitive	you not said here	another way					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory

Option 4

Nothing, it stays stuck forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 stays	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stays	nsubj
4	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stays	xcomp
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 stays	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	Nothing					forever, stuck property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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