Test 1 · ★ · The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes

«put my bean plant in the cupboard so it's safe, it'll be fine yeah» What will happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, plant · What happens: put, be, happen · To what, where: bean plant, cupboard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 299 «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» 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 put	punct
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 plant	nmod:poss
4	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plant	compound
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cupboard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cupboard	det
8	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 safe	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 safe	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 safe	cop
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 put	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fine	expl
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fine	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 fine	cop
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 put	conj
18	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 put	discourse
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 happen	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 happen	aux
22	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 put	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my bean plant	the cupboard		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	plant			safe property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	future	you not said here			fine property	tree rules
4	happen	future					vn occur-48.3-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It will grow pale and weak, because it needs light to make food

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	3 grow	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 weak	cc
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pale	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 needs	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 needs	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 needs	nsubj
10	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	parataxis
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needs	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 needs	advcl
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	future	It		pale property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	present	it	light		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive		food		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product

Option 2

It will grow faster in the dark, because plants like to rest

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	3 grow	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dark	det
7	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 like	mark
10	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 like	nsubj
11	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 rest	mark
13	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 like	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	grow	future	It	the dark	fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location
2	like	present	plants			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	rest not said to happen	to-infinitive	plants not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, plants only need water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 plants	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Nothing plants	water					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme

Option 4

It will turn into a mushroom

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	3 turn	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 mushroom	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mushroom	det
6	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	future	It			a mushroom			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into mushroom=Trajectory

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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