Test 7 · ★★ · Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and s…

Why do chilli plants not mind birds eating them but put off mice?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chilli plants · What happens: eat, put off · To what, where: birds, mice

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	8 eating	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eating	aux
3	chilli	chilli	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plants	compound
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eating	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 birds	advmod
6	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 birds	compound
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eating	nsubj
8	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eating	obj
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 eating	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 put	compound:prt
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 put	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 eating	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · do-support	chilli plants	birds = bird					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	put off	infinitive	chilli plants not said here		mice				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mouse=Goal

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 · ✓ the right answer

Birds do not feel the burn and spread the seeds whole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 burn	det
6	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spread	cc
8	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 feel	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seeds	det
10	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spread	obj
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spread	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	present · do-support	Birds	the burn					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burn=Theme
2	spread	infinitive	Birds not said here	the seeds				whole property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme

Option 2

Birds eat only the leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 leaves	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Birds	the leaves					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 3

Birds are allergic to mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 allergic	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 allergic	cop
3	allergic	allergic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 mice	case
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 allergic	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Birds					to mice; allergic property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Mice spread seeds much better than birds, so chillies want mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spread	nsubj
2	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spread	obj
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 spread	xcomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 birds	case
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 better	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 want	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 want	advmod
10	chillies	chilli	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 want	nsubj
11	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 spread	parataxis
12	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	present	Mice	seeds				good property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme
2	want	present	chillies	mice					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mouse=Theme

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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