Test 5 · ★ · Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters

«mate reckons plants eat the soil to grow, that's why they need it» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, plants, that · What happens: reckon, eat, grow, be, need · To what, where: soil · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 46 «Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soil	det
7	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 grow	mark
9	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 soil	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 why	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 why	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 why	cop
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 need	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 need	nsubj
15	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 need	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 need	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 need	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon in a quote	present	mate			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	eat in a quote	present	plants	the soil		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient
3	grow in a quote	to-infinitive	plants not said here	the soil not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	that		why property	tree rules
5	need in a quote	present	plants = plant	soil		tree rules
6	is	present			right property	tree rules

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

No, plants make food from light, air and water; soil gives water and minerals

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 light	case
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 air	punct
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 water	cc
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 gives	punct
13	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gives	nsubj
14	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gives	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 minerals	cc
17	minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	plants	food		light and air and water			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from light=Material
2	give	present	soil	water and minerals					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2

Yes, plants eat soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	plants	soil					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient

Option 3

No, plants need nothing at all to grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 need	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 nothing	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 grow	mark
9	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	plants	nothing		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
2	grow	to-infinitive	plants not said here	nothing not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, the roots chew the soil up slowly and swallow it bit by bit, mate

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 chew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roots	det
4	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chew	nsubj
5	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soil	det
7	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chew	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	5 chew	compound:prt
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 chew	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 swallow	cc
11	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chew	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 swallow	obj
13	bit	bit	ADP	_	11 swallow	compound:prt
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 bit	case
15	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swallow	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mate	punct
17	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bit	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew up	present	the roots	the soil				slowly property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient
2	swallow bit	infinitive	the roots not said here	soil				by bit	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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