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Test 7 · ★★ · Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers

In a horror film a giant flytrap eats people. What is true about a real Venus flytrap?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: giant flytrap · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: people, horror film

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 47 «Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers» 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 horror film a giant flytrap eats people.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 film	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 film	det
3	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 film	compound
4	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eats	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flytrap	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flytrap	amod
7	flytrap	flytrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eats	nsubj
8	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eats	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	a giant flytrap	people		a horror film			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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.

Sentence 2: What is true about a real Venus flytrap?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	8 flytrap	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 flytrap	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flytrap	amod
7	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 flytrap	compound
8	flytrap	flytrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about a real Venus flytrap; true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It lives in every garden in Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lives	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Europe	case
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	It			every garden		in Europe	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location

Option 2

It grows big enough to eat dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grows	xcomp
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 big	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 big	advcl
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive		dogs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient

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

It is a small plant catching insects in a few wild places in the Carolinas

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 plant	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plant	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plant	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plant	amod
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	catching	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 plant	acl
7	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catching	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 places	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 places	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 places	amod
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 places	amod
12	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catching	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 Carolinas	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Carolinas	det
15	Carolinas	Carolinas	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 places	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a small plant					tree rules
2	catch	gerund	a small plant not said here	insects		a few wild places in the Carolinas			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme

Option 4

It catches insects with long roots that reach up out of the ground and grab them

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 catches	nsubj
2	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catches	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 roots	case
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 roots	amod
6	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catches	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 reach	nsubj
8	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 roots	acl:relcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 reach	compound:prt
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 ground	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reach	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 grab	cc
15	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 reach	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	It	insects				with long roots	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme
2	reach up	present	long roots			the ground			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent out ground=Path
3	grab	infinitive	long roots not said here	insects = insect					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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