Test 2 · ★★ · Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and s…

«potato's a root, obvs, it's in the ground» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: potato, ground · What happens: be · To what, where: root, ground

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 root	punct
2	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 root	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 root	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 root	det
5	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 obvs	punct
7	obvs	obv	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 root	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ground	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ground	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ground	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 root	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 ground	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ground	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 root	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	potato	a root and obvs and the ground			tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	potato		the ground		tree rules
3	is	present	the ground			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

It is a seed that never grew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seed	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seed	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 seed	det
4	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 grew	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 grew	advmod
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seed	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a seed					tree rules
2	not grow	past	a seed						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is a fruit that fell off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fruit	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fruit	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fruit	det
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fruit	acl:relcl
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 fell	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a fruit					tree rules
2	fall off	past	a fruit						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it is a root like a carrot or a parsnip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 root	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 root	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 root	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 root	det
6	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 carrot	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 carrot	det
9	carrot	carrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 root	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 parsnip	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 parsnip	det
12	parsnip	parsnip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carrot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a root				like a carrot or a parsnip	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is a swollen stem, and its eyes are buds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stem	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stem	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stem	det
4	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stem	amod
5	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 buds	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 buds	cc
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 buds	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 buds	cop
11	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stem	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a swollen stem and buds					tree rules
2	is a	present	its eyes	buds					tree rules

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