Test 5 · The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life

What would you see if you looked at a plant leaf cell and your cheek cell side by side?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: see, look

This is test 5 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 see	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 looked	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 looked	nsubj
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 cell	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cell	det
10	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cell	compound
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cell	compound
12	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looked	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 side	cc
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 side	nmod:poss
15	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cell	compound
16	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 side	compound
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cell	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 side	case
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 side	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	look a condition, not said to happen	past	you					at a plant leaf cell and your cell side by side	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cell=Theme

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

They would look exactly the same, because all living cells are alike inside, plant or animal

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 look	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 look	aux
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 alike	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 alike	mark
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 cells	det
10	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cells	amod
11	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 alike	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 alike	cop
13	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	parataxis
14	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 look	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 plant	punct
16	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	parataxis
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 animal	cc
18	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plant	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	would	They	inside, same property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	live	gerund			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	all living cells	alike property	tree rules

Option 2

The leaf cell would have no nucleus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cell	det
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cell	compound
3	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 nucleus	det
7	nucleus	nucleus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the leaf cell	no nucleus					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nucleus=Patient

Option 3

The cheek cell would be green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cell	det
2	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cell	compound
3	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 green	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 green	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 green	cop
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the cheek cell					green property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The leaf cell has a stiff wall and green chloroplasts; the cheek cell does not

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cell	det
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cell	compound
3	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wall	det
6	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wall	amod
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 chloroplasts	cc
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chloroplasts	amod
10	chloroplasts	chloroplast	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wall	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 does	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cell	det
13	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cell	compound
14	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 does	nsubj
15	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	parataxis
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 does	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the leaf cell	a stiff wall and green chloroplasts					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient
2	not do	present	the cheek cell						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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