Test 11 · The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life

Why might a nerve cell need to be so long?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: nerve cell · What happens: need, be

This is test 11 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 need	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cell	det
4	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cell	compound
5	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	10 long	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 long	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 need	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	might	a nerve cell						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	to-infinitive	a nerve cell not said here					long 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

Because long cells store more food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 store	mark
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cells	amod
3	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 store	nsubj
4	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 store	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present	long cells	more food					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To carry messages fast all the way from one place to another

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 carry	mark
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obj
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 carry	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 way	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obl:unmarked
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 place	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 place	nummod
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 another	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	to-infinitive		messages		one place		to another; all way obl:unmarked; fast property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme from place=Initial_Location to another=Destination

Option 3

Because it is the oldest cell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 cell	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cell	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cell	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cell	det
5	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 cell	amod
6	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the oldest cell					tree rules

Option 4

To hold up the leg like a strong bone, from the hip down to the toe

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hold	mark
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 hold	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leg	det
5	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 bone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bone	det
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bone	amod
9	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hip	punct
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 hip	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hip	det
13	hip	hip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 hip	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 toe	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 toe	det
17	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	to-infinitive		the leg		the hip		like a strong bone; to the toe	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot leg=Theme

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