Exam question 1 · How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air

Identify the process by which green plants manufacture sugar from light, water and carbon dioxide.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, green plants · What happens: identify, manufacture · To what, where: process, sugar, light

This is exam question 1 of lesson 56 «How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 process	det
3	process	process	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 manufacture	obl
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plants	amod
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 manufacture	nsubj
8	manufacture	manufacture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 process	acl:relcl
9	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 manufacture	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 light	case
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 manufacture	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 water	punct
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 light	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dioxide	cc
15	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dioxide	compound
16	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 light	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the process					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent process=Theme
2	manufacture	present	green plants	sugar		light and water and carbon dioxide		by the process	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent sugar=Result from light=Material

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

Pollination of the flower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pollination	pollination	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 flower	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flower	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pollination	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pollinate			the flower					nom pollination «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Germination of the seed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germination	germination	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 seed	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seed	det
4	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Germination	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	germinate			the seed					nom germination «process transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Photosynthesis

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Photosynthesis	photosynthesis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Respiration of the leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Respiration	respiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 leaf	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leaf	det
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Respiration	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	respire		the leaf						nom respiration «act intransitive»: of=agent

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