Test 3 · ★★ · Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches, germs and…

«broccoli and cabbage are totally different plants mate» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: broccoli, plants mate · What happens: be · To what, where: plants mate

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 279 «Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches, germs and tuskless elephants» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 broccoli	punct
2	broccoli	broccoli	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mate	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cabbage	cc
4	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broccoli	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mate	cop
6	totally	totally	ADV	_	7 different	advmod
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plants	amod
8	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mate	compound
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mate	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	broccoli and cabbage	plants mate					tree rules
2	is	present	plants mate					right 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

Broccoli grows from potato seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Broccoli	broccoli	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 seeds	case
4	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seeds	compound
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Broccoli					from potato seeds	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from seed=Patient

Option 2

Broccoli is a kind of small tree that farmers cut down while it is young

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Broccoli	broccoli	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tree	amod
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 cut	obj
9	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cut	nsubj
10	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	acl:relcl
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 cut	compound:prt
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 young	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 young	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 young	cop
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cut	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Broccoli	a kind	of small tree	tree rules
2	cut down	past	farmers	a kind		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Product
3	is	present	Broccoli		young property	tree rules

Option 3

Cabbage is a kind of lettuce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 lettuce	case
6	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cabbage	a kind				of lettuce	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They were bred from the same wild cabbage and are the same species

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 bred	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bred	aux:pass
3	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 cabbage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cabbage	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cabbage	amod
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cabbage	amod
8	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bred	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 species	cc
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 species	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 species	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 species	amod
13	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bred	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breed	past · passive		They		the same wild cabbage			tree rules
2	is a	present		the same species					tree rules

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