Test 10 · ★ · China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies

«lotus seed growing after 1,300 years, that's fake news» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lotus seed, that, fake news · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: fake news · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 380 «China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies» 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 seed	punct
2	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seed	compound
3	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 seed	acl
5	after	after	ADV	_	4 growing	advmod
6	1,300	1,300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 growing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 news	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 news	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 news	cop
11	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 news	amod
12	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seed	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 news	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 news	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 seed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow in a quote	gerund	lotus seed and fake news not said here		year	after property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	that	fake news			tree rules
3	is	present	fake news			right 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

Lotus seeds are stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seeds	compound
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stones	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stones	cop
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lotus seeds	stones					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Seeds die after one year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 die	nsubj
2	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 year	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 year	nummod
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	Seeds				year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

It was a new seed painted to look old by scientists who wanted to be famous

The tree, 16 words

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	5 seed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seed	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 seed	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seed	amod
5	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 seed	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 painted	xcomp
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 look	xcomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 scientists	case
11	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 look	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 scientists	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	16 famous	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 famous	cop
16	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a new seed		tree rules
2	paint	participle		a new seed not said here		tree rules
3	look	to-infinitive			by scientists; old property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by scientist=Theme
4	want	past	scientists			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
5	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	scientists not said here		famous property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It really happened; its hard waterproof coat kept it alive

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	3 happened	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 kept	punct
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 coat	nmod:poss
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 coat	amod
7	waterproof	waterproof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 coat	amod
8	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	obj
11	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past	its hard waterproof coat	it				alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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