Test 9 · How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air

My plant's all floppy, no wait, it's the lettuce on the table. why's it gone like that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: plant · What happens: be, go · To what, where: lettuce, table

This is test 9 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 plant	nmod:poss
2	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floppy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 floppy	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 floppy	advmod
5	floppy	floppy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wait	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 wait	det
8	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floppy	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lettuce	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lettuce	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lettuce	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lettuce	det
13	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floppy	parataxis
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 table	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 table	det
16	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lettuce	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lettuce	punct
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 gone	advmod
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	aux
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gone	nsubj
21	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 floppy	advcl
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 that	case
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 gone	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 floppy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	My plant			all, floppy property	tree rules
2	is a	present	plant	the lettuce	the table		tree rules
3	go	present · passive	plant			like that	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

It has lost water, so its cells went soft

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 lost	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cells	nmod:poss
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
10	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · perfect · passive		It					tree rules
2	go	past	water's cells					soft property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It needs more salt sprinkled on it

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 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 salt	amod
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
5	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 salt	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sprinkled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	It	more salt					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot salt=Theme
2	sprinkle	participle		more salt not said here		salt			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on it=Destination

Option 3

It has been nibbled by slugs in the night

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	4 nibbled	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nibbled	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 nibbled	aux:pass
4	nibbled	nibble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 slugs	case
6	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nibbled	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 night	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nibbled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nibble	present · perfect · passive	slugs	It			night		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 4

It is too cold

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	4 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					cold property	tree rules

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