Test 11 · How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air

How would you test whether cress needs warmth to grow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cress · What happens: test, need, grow · To what, where: warmth

This is test 11 of lesson 56 «How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 test	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 test	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 test	nsubj
4	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	7 needs	mark
6	cress	cress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	nsubj
7	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 test	ccomp
8	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 grow	mark
10	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 warmth	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	test	would	you		tree rules
2	need	present	cress	warmth	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot warmth=Theme
3	grow	to-infinitive	cress not said here	warmth not said here	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Water one pot with warm water and one with nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pot	nummod
3	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Water	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pot	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 one	cc
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 water	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 nothing	case
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Water	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	water	imperative	you not said here	one pot				with warm water; with nothing	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pot=Destination with nothing=Theme

Option 2

Grow one pot in a cold dark cupboard and one warm on the windowsill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pot	nummod
3	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grow	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 cupboard	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cupboard	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cupboard	amod
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cupboard	amod
8	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grow	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 warm	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 warm	nummod
11	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cupboard	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 windowsill	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 windowsill	det
14	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	imperative	you not said here	one pot		a cold dark cupboard		on the windowsill	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=Theme

Option 3

Grow one pot and watch it carefully every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pot	nummod
3	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grow	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 watch	cc
5	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Grow	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 watch	obj
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 watch	advmod
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watch	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	imperative	you not said here	one pot					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=Theme
2	watch	infinitive	you not said here	pot			day	carefully property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Grow two pots, one warm and one cold, keeping light and water the same

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pots	nummod
3	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Grow	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 warm	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 warm	nummod
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pots	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cold	cc
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 cold	nummod
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 warm	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 keeping	punct
11	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Grow	advcl
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keeping	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 water	cc
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 light	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 same	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 keeping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	imperative	you not said here	two pots					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=Theme
2	keep	gerund	you not said here	light and water					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent light=Theme same=Attribute

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