Test 3 · ★★ · Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grap…

«gonna plant a Granny Smith pip and get Granny Smiths, easy» What will most likely happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, easy · What happens: plant, get, happen · To what, where: Smith pip, Granny Smiths

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 346 «Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow» 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	_	3 plant	punct
2	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	3 plant	dep
3	plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pip	det
5	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Smith	compound
6	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pip	compound
7	pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plant	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 get	cc
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 plant	conj
10	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Smiths	compound
11	Smiths	smith	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 get	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 easy	punct
13	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 happen	nsubj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 easy	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 happen	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 happen	aux
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 likely	advmod
18	likely	likely	ADV	_	19 happen	advmod
19	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Smiths	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 plant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	plant in a quote	imperative	you not said here	a Smith pip		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pip=Patient
2	get in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	Granny Smiths		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smith=Stimulus
3	happen	future	easy		likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

The tree will give a different apple, because pips mix two parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 apple	det
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 apple	amod
7	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mix	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 mix	mark
10	pips	pip	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mix	nsubj
11	mix	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 give	conj
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 parents	nummod
13	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	future	the tree	a different apple					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme
2	mix	present	pips	two parents					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Patient

Option 2

The pip cannot grow at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pip	det
2	pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 grow	advmod
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	can	the pip			all			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 3

He will get exactly the same Granny Smiths, because a pip always copies its tree

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 Smiths	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Smiths	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Smiths	amod
7	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Smiths	compound
8	Smiths	smith	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 copies	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 copies	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pip	det
12	pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 copies	nsubj
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 copies	advmod
14	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 get	advcl
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tree	nmod:poss
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 copies	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	future	He	the same Granny Smiths					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smith=Stimulus
2	copy	present	a pip	pip's tree				always property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

Option 4

He will get pears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	future	He	pears					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pear=Stimulus

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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