Test 3 · Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew…
In a fairy tale, a witch hides poison in a shiny red apple. Which real plant has bright red cups hiding a poisonous seed?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch, real plant, bright red cups · What happens: hide, have · To what, where: poison, fairy tale, bright red cups, poisonous seed
This is test 3 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: In a fairy tale, a witch hides poison in a shiny red apple.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 tale | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tale | det |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tale | compound |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hides | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tale | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hides | nsubj |
| 8 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hides | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 apple | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 apple | det |
| 12 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 apple | amod |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 apple | amod |
| 14 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hides | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hides | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | a witch | poison | a fairy tale | in a shiny red apple | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent poison=Patient in tale=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: Which real plant has bright red cups hiding a poisonous seed?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 has | obj |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 plant | amod |
| 3 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cups | amod |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cups | amod |
| 7 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 cups | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 seed | det |
| 10 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seed | amod |
| 11 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hiding | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | real plant | bright red cups | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | gerund | bright red cups not said here | a poisonous seed | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The yew
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 yew | det |
| 2 | yew | yew | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The rose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rose | det |
| 2 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The apple tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | compound |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The old oak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 oak | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 oak | amod |
| 3 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/392-poisonous-plants-to-stay-away-from-berries-foxglove-yew-and-nightshade/t3/