Test 4 · How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air

What would happen if you turned the cress pot round every day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, turn · To what, where: cress pot

This is test 4 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	9 pot	det
8	cress	cress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pot	compound
9	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obj
10	round	round	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	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 cress pot			day	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pot=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

It would bend away from the light and lean towards the dark wall instead

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 bend	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bend	aux
3	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 bend	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 light	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bend	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lean	cc
9	lean	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bend	conj
10	towards	towards	ADP	_	13 wall	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wall	det
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wall	amod
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lean	obl
14	instead	instead	ADV	_	9 lean	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend away	would	It			the light		away property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from light=Location
2	lean	infinitive						towards the dark wall; instead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It would get dizzy and die

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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 die	cc
6	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 get	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It					dizzy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	die	present							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

It would grow in a spiral

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 spiral	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spiral	det
6	spiral	spiral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It			a spiral			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spiral=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would grow straighter, as no side stays in the shade

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	straighter	straight	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stays	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 stays	mark
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 side	det
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stays	nsubj
9	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 shade	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shade	det
12	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					straight property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay	present	no side			the shade			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shade=Location

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