Test 4 · ★★★ · Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clove…

«nettles are useless, rip 'em all out» What would a butterfly fan say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: nettles, butterfly fan · What happens: be, rip out, say · To what, where: 'em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 useless	punct
2	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 useless	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 useless	cop
4	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rip	punct
6	rip	rip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 useless	conj
7	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rip	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 'em	det
9	out	out	ADP	_	6 rip	compound:prt
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 useless	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 say	obj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 say	aux
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fan	det
14	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fan	compound
15	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	nsubj
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 useless	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 useless	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	nettles		useless property	tree rules
2	rip out in a quote	infinitive	nettles not said here	'em = they		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	say speech: assert	would	a butterfly fan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Nettles poison all butterflies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 poison	nsubj
2	poison	poison	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 butterflies	det
4	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 poison	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	present	Nettles	all butterflies					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Patient

Option 2

Rip them out, because nettle leaves poison every kind of butterfly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rip	rip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Rip	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Rip	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 poison	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 poison	mark
6	nettle	nettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaves	compound
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 poison	nsubj
8	poison	poison	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Rip	advcl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 kind	det
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poison	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 butterfly	case
12	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rip out	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	poison	present	nettle leaves	every kind of butterfly					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient

Option 3

Butterflies only eat roses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Leave some; peacock and red admiral caterpillars need them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	1 Leave	obj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 need	punct
4	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caterpillars	compound
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 admiral	cc
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 admiral	amod
7	admiral	admiral	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 peacock	conj
8	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 need	nsubj
9	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	some					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
2	need	present	peacock caterpillars	them = they					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

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