Test 6 · Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew…

What would happen if someone picked lily of the valley leaves thinking they were wild garlic and ate them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone, lily, they · What happens: happen, pick, leave, think, be, eat · To what, where: wild garlic, them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 picked	mark
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 picked	nsubj
6	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaves	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 valley	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 valley	det
10	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lily	nmod
11	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 picked	ccomp
12	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 picked	advcl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 garlic	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 garlic	cop
15	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 garlic	amod
16	garlic	garlic	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thinking	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ate	cc
18	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 picked	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ate	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pick a condition, not said to happen	past	someone		tree rules
3	leave	present	lily of the valley		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	gerund	someone not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	they	wild garlic	tree rules
6	eat	past	someone not said here	them = they	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

They could be poisoned, because lily of the valley is poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poisoned	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 poisoned	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 poisoned	aux:pass
4	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 poisonous	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 poisonous	mark
7	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 poisonous	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 valley	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 valley	det
10	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lily	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 poisonous	cop
12	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poisoned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	could · passive		They					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	present	lily of the valley					poisonous property	tree rules

Option 2

They would get stronger hearts from it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 hearts	amod
5	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	They	stronger hearts		it			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent heart=Theme from it=Source

Option 3

They would just taste of garlic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taste	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 taste	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 taste	advmod
4	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 garlic	case
6	garlic	garlic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taste	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	would	They					of garlic	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Nothing at all, because both of them are safe and tasty salad leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 leaves	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 safe	mark
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 safe	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 both	nmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 safe	cop
10	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 leaves	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tasty	cc
12	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 safe	conj
13	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leaves	compound
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	both					safe property	tree rules
2	be		both not said here						tree rules

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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