Test 12 · Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew…
Your mum stores onions and daffodil bulbs in the same box in the shed. Why is that a bad idea?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: store, be · To what, where: onions, same box, bad idea
This is test 12 of lesson 392 «Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade» 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
Sentence 1: Your mum stores onions and daffodil bulbs in the same box in the shed.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stores | nsubj |
| 3 | stores | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | onions | onion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stores | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bulbs | cc |
| 6 | daffodil | daffodil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bulbs | compound |
| 7 | bulbs | bulb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 onions | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 box | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 box | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 box | amod |
| 11 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stores | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 shed | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shed | det |
| 14 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 box | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stores | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | store | present | Your mum | onions and daffodil bulbs | the same box in the shed | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent onion=Theme in box=Location |
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.
Sentence 2: Why is that a bad idea?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 idea | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 idea | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 idea | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 idea | det |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 idea | amod |
| 6 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 idea | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a bad idea | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
The bulbs make the onions grow yellow flowers in the box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bulbs | det |
| 2 | bulbs | bulb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bulbs | acl:relcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 onions | det |
| 5 | onions | onion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grow | nsubj |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flowers | amod |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grow | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 box | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 box | det |
| 11 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the bulbs not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | grow | present | the bulbs | yellow flowers | the box | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The onions make the bulbs rot at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 onions | det |
| 2 | onions | onion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bulbs | det |
| 5 | bulbs | bulb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rot | nsubj |
| 6 | rot | rot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 rot | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the onions | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rot | present | the bulbs | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Daffodils steal the onion smell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daffodils | daffodil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 steal | nsubj |
| 2 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smell | det |
| 4 | onion | onion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smell | compound |
| 5 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 steal | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | present | Daffodils | the onion smell | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location smell=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Someone could mix them up and cook a poisonous bulb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 mix | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 mix | aux |
| 3 | mix | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mix | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 mix | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cook | cc |
| 7 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mix | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bulb | det |
| 9 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bulb | amod |
| 10 | bulb | bulb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cook | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix up | could | Someone | them = they | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cook | infinitive | Someone not said here | a poisonous bulb | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bulb=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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