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

What would happen if you turned the bean jar upside down after the root had started?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, root · What happens: happen, turn, start · To what, where: jar upside

This is test 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 turned	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 upside	det
8	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jar	compound
9	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 upside	compound
10	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obj
11	down	down	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 started	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 root	det
14	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 started	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 started	aux
16	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 turned	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn a condition, not said to happen	past	you	the jar upside	down property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent upside=Theme
3	start	past · perfect	the root			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

The root would bend to grow down again and the shoot up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 root	det
2	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bend	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bend	aux
4	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 grow	mark
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bend	advcl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 grow	compound:prt
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 grow	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shoot	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shoot	det
11	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bend	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	4 bend	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend up	would	the root						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow down	to-infinitive	the root not said here				again		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The root and shoot would swap places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 root	det
2	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swap	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shoot	cc
4	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 root	conj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 swap	aux
6	swap	swap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swap	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	would	the root and shoot	places					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme

Option 3

The bean would stop growing for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bean	det
2	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the bean						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	the bean not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The root would keep growing straight up into the air of the jar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 root	det
2	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	5 growing	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 growing	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 jar	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 jar	det
13	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 air	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	the root						tree rules
2	grow	gerund	the root not said here					into the air of the jar result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into air=Result

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