Test 8 · ★★★ · Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clove…

Why do daisies survive a lawnmower?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: daisies · What happens: survive · To what, where: lawnmower

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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	4 survive	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 survive	aux
3	daisies	daisy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 survive	nsubj
4	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lawnmower	det
6	lawnmower	lawnmower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survive	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 survive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	present · do-support	daisies	a lawnmower					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lawnmower=Circumstance

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

Mowers cannot cut white flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mowers	mower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cut	advmod
4	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flowers	amod
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cut	can	Mowers	white flowers					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flower=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They grow low, so the blades pass over them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 grow	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pass	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 pass	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blades	det
7	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pass	nsubj
8	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pass	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	They					low property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	present	the blades					over them = they	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over they=Location

Option 3

Their stems are made of metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stems	nmod:poss
2	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 metal	case
6	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Their stems				of metal	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	stem		Their = they						nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

They pull themselves underground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pull	nsubj
2	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 pull	obj
4	underground	underground	ADV	_	2 pull	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	They	themselves = they				underground property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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