Test 11 · ★ · Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime tree…

Why is a self-drilling seed useful on hard dry steppe ground?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: drilling seed · What happens: drill, be · To what, where: hard dry steppe ground

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 useful	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 useful	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 seed	det
4	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drilling	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 self	punct
6	drilling	drill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 seed	amod
7	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 useful	nsubj
8	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 ground	case
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ground	amod
11	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ground	amod
12	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ground	compound
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 useful	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 useful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drill	gerund							vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	a drilling seed			hard dry steppe ground		useful 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

It makes the soil softer for cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soil	det
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 cows	case
7	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 softer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the soil				soft property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material soil=Product

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

It plants itself where it could not just fall in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 plants	nsubj
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 plants	nmod
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 fall	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fall	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fall	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 fall	advmod
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 fall	advmod
9	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 plants	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fall in	could	it						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It helps the seed fly far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seed	det
4	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	obj
5	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 helps	xcomp
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	the seed					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent seed=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	fly	present	the seed not said here					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It keeps birds from flying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeps	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 flying	mark
5	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 keeps	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	birds					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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