Exam question 3 · How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning cress cultivated in total darkness.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, cultivate · To what, where: response, cress

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	cress	cress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
11	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cress	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 darkness	case
13	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 darkness	amod
14	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cultivated	obl:agent
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	cress		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cress=Experiencer
4	cultivate	participle		cress not said here		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

It becomes elongated, pale and weak

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	3 elongated	nsubj:pass
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 elongated	aux:pass
3	elongated	elongate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pale	punct
5	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 elongated	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 weak	cc
7	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pale	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	elongate	present · passive		It					tree rules

Option 2

It becomes short, dark and vigorous

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 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 becomes	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 short	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 vigorous	cc
7	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 short	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It					short property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It acquires a red colouration

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 acquires	nsubj
2	acquires	acquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 colouration	det
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 colouration	amod
5	colouration	colouration	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 acquires	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	acquire	present	It	a red colouration					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset colouration=Theme

Option 4

It remains wholly unaltered

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 remains	nsubj
2	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	4 unaltered	advmod
4	unaltered	unaltered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remains	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	present	It					unaltered property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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