Test 10 · ★★★ · Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clove…
Why would a flower close at night?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 340 «Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain» 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 | 5 close | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 close | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flower | det |
| 4 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 close | nsubj |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 close | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 close | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
To sleep like a person
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 sleep | mark |
| 2 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 person | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 person | det |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sleep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | to-infinitive | like a person | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
To sleep through the dark hours, like a person, and wake up fresh
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 sleep | mark |
| 2 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 hours | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hours | det |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hours | amod |
| 6 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sleep | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 person | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 person | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sleep | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wake | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wake | cc |
| 13 | wake | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sleep | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 wake | compound:prt |
| 15 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wake | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | to-infinitive | hour | like a person | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wake up | present | fresh property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
To hide from the moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 hide | mark |
| 2 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 moon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moon | det |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hide | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | to-infinitive | the moon | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from moon=Beneficiary |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
To protect its pollen from cold and damp when bees are not flying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 protect | mark |
| 2 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pollen | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 protect | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 cold | case |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 protect | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 damp | cc |
| 8 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cold | conj |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 flying | mark |
| 10 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flying | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 flying | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 flying | advmod |
| 13 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 protect | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | to-infinitive | its pollen | from cold | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pollen=Beneficiary from cold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not fly | present · progressive | bees | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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