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Test 6 · How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microsco…

You want to test if plants grow better with music. Which plan is a fair test?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, plants, plan · What happens: want, test, grow, be · To what, where: fair test

This is test 6 of lesson 264 «How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming» 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: You want to test if plants grow better with music.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 test	mark
4	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 grow	mark
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grow	nsubj
7	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 test	advcl
8	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 grow	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 music	case
10	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grow	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	You						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	test not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	grow a condition, not said to happen	present	plants					with music; well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Which plan is a fair test?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 test	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 test	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 test	det
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 test	amod
6	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	which plan	a fair test					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Many plants given different water and music

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 plants	amod
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 water	case
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plants	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 music	cc
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle							vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

Two same plants with the same light and water, only one hears music

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 plants	nummod
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plants	amod
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hears	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 light	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plants	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 water	cc
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hears	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hears	nsubj
13	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hears	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	Two same plants with the same light and water	music					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus

Option 3

One plant with music, watched for one hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 plant	nummod
2	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watched	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 music	case
4	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plant	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 plant	punct
6	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 hour	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hour	nummod
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	One plant with music				hour		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4

One plant in the sun with music, and one in a dark cupboard with no music at all

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 plant	nummod
2	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plant	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 music	case
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sun	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cupboard	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cupboard	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 cupboard	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 cupboard	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cupboard	det
13	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cupboard	amod
14	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plant	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 music	case
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 music	det
17	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cupboard	nmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 cupboard	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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