Test 11 · ★ · China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies

What could you make if you could copy a lotus leaf?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: make, copy · To what, where: lotus leaf

This is test 11 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 make	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 copy	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 copy	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 copy	aux
8	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 leaf	det
10	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaf	compound
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 copy	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	could	you						tree rules
2	copy a condition, not said to happen	could	you	a lotus leaf					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=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

Cups that keep water hot all day and all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Cups	acl:relcl
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keep	xcomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 night	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Cups	water			day	hot property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2

Paper that never tears, even when wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 tears	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 tears	advmod
4	tears	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Paper	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wet	punct
6	even	even	ADV	_	8 wet	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 wet	advmod
8	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Paper	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tear	present	Paper						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Leaves that turn into gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 turn	nsubj
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leaves	acl:relcl
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Windows and paint that clean themselves in the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 paint	cc
3	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Windows	conj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 clean	nsubj
5	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Windows	acl:relcl
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 clean	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 rain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rain	det
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present	Windows and paint	Windows = window		the rain			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient

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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