Test 12 · ★★ · Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and s…

Why do farmers plant new banana plants from shoots and not from seeds?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmers · What happens: plant · To what, where: new banana plants, shoots

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 288 «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 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	4 plant	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 plant	aux
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plant	nsubj
4	plant	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plants	amod
6	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plants	compound
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plant	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 shoots	case
9	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plant	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seeds	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 seeds	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 seeds	case
13	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shoots	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 plant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	present · do-support	farmers	new banana plants		shoots and seeds			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient

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

Banana seeds are poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seeds	compound
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poisonous	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poisonous	cop
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Banana seeds					poisonous property	tree rules

Option 2

Shoots are cheaper than water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cheaper	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cheaper	cop
3	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheaper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Shoots					than water; cheap property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Shop bananas have no proper seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bananas	compound
2	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 seeds	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seeds	amod
6	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Shop bananas	no proper seeds					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Seeds grow only in Mexico

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Mexico	case
5	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Seeds			Mexico			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mexico=Location

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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