Test 9 · ★ · China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies

Why would flowering all at once help bamboo seeds survive hungry seed-eaters?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: bamboo seeds · What happens: flower, help, survive · To what, where: hungry seed eaters

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 flowering	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 flowering	aux
3	flowering	flower	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 help	advcl
4	all	all	ADV	_	3 flowering	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 flowering	obl
7	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seeds	compound
9	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 survive	nsubj
10	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 help	xcomp
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eaters	amod
12	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eaters	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 seed	punct
14	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 survive	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	flower	would			all property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	help	present				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	survive	present	bamboo seeds	hungry seed eaters		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eater=Circumstance

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

The seeds are poisonous only then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 seeds	det
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poisonous	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poisonous	cop
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 then	advmod
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 poisonous	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the seeds				then	poisonous property	tree rules

Option 2

Seed-eaters sleep that year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eaters	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Seed	punct
3	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sleep	nsubj
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	Seed eaters				year		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

There are too many seeds for the animals to eat them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seeds	amod
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 animals	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 are	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eat	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	many seeds			there		for the animals	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	many seeds not said here	seeds = seed					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

The animals do not see bamboo flowers, because they are green like the leaves

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flowers	compound
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 green	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 green	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 green	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 green	cop
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 see	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 leaves	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 leaves	det
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 green	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	present · do-support	the animals	bamboo flowers					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus
2	is	present	animals = animal					like the leaves; green property	tree rules

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