Test 9 · ★★★ · Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clove…

Why are four-leaf clovers rare?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: leaf clovers · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	7 rare	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rare	cop
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 leaf	nummod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 four	punct
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clovers	compound
6	clovers	clover	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rare	nsubj
7	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 rare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	leaf clovers					rare property	tree rules

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

Bees nibble the fourth leaf off most of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nibble	nsubj
2	nibble	nibble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaf	det
4	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 leaf	amod
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nibble	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	7 most	case
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 nibble	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nibble	present	Bees	the fourth leaf				off most of them	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 2

Four-leaf clovers grow only high on mountains, where cows eat most of them first

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 leaf	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Four	punct
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clovers	compound
4	clovers	clover	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 high	advmod
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grow	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 mountains	case
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 eat	advmod
12	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eat	nsubj
13	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	conj
14	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 eat	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 most	nmod
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	leaf clovers			mountains		high property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location
2	eat	present	cows	most of clovers				first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient

Option 3

They only grow on 29 February

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	3 grow	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 29	case
5	29	29	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 grow	obl
6	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 29	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	They			29 February			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on 29=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Clover nearly always grows three leaflets, and a fourth is an unusual change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	nsubj
2	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 grows	advmod
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 grows	advmod
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 leaflets	nummod
6	leaflets	leaflet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grows	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 change	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 change	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fourth	det
10	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 change	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 change	cop
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 change	det
13	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 change	amod
14	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Clover	three leaflets				always, nearly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaflet=Theme
2	is a	present	a fourth	a unusual change					tree rules

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