Test 10 · ★ · Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime tree…

What would happen to poppies on a field that is never dug or ploughed again?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, not dig, plough · To what, where: field

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 377 «Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 poppies	case
5	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 field	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 field	det
8	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 dug	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dug	aux:pass
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 dug	advmod
12	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 field	acl:relcl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 ploughed	cc
14	ploughed	plough	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 dug	conj
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 ploughed	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would		a field		to poppies	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on field=Location
2	not dig	present · passive	a field				vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	plough	participle			again		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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

Poppies would become blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Poppies					blue property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

Other plants would grow over it and the poppies would slowly fade out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 plants	amod
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grow	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fade	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 poppies	det
9	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fade	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fade	aux
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	12 fade	advmod
12	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grow	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 fade	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Other plants			it			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location
2	fade out	would	the poppies					slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

There would be many more poppies every single year, until the field was all red

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 poppies	amod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 poppies	amod
6	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 year	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 be	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 red	punct
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 red	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 field	det
13	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 red	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 red	cop
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 red	advmod
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 be	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	many more poppies			there	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the field					all, red property	tree rules

Option 4

Poppies would turn into trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 trees	case
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	Poppies			trees			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into tree=Trajectory

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/t10/