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Test 5 · ★★★ · Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clove…

Why would a plant need stings?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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=Rel	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stings	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 need	det
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	compound
5	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stings	compound
6	stings	sting	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Why	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

To keep warm in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive					winter	warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To help its seeds fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 help	mark
2	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fly	advcl
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 seeds	nmod:poss
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 help	obj
5	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive		its seeds					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Beneficiary
2	fly	present							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

To catch flies for food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 catch	mark
2	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catch	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	to-infinitive		flies				for food	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fly=Theme for food=Beneficiary

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

To stop animals eating it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	obj
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		animals					tree rules
2	eat	gerund		it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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