Test 1 · ★ · Roots, stems and leaves

Why does a dandelion grow back after you pull off its leaves?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dandelion, you · What happens: grow back, pull off · To what, where: leaves

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 57 «Roots, stems and leaves» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 grow	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dandelion	det
4	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 pull	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 pull	nsubj
9	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 pull	compound:prt
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 leaves	nmod:poss
12	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pull	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present · do-support	a dandelion						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull off	present	you	dandelion's leaves					vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=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

Dandelions grow from their leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dandelions	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 leaves	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 leaves	nmod:poss
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Dandelions					from Dandelions's leaves	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from leaf=Patient

Option 2

The soil remembers the plant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soil	det
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remembers	nsubj
3	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plant	det
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remembers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	the soil	the plant					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent plant=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The deep taproot is still there with its food store

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 taproot	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taproot	amod
3	taproot	taproot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 there	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 store	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 store	nmod:poss
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 store	compound
10	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 there	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the deep taproot				still	with taproot's food store; there property	tree rules

Option 4

The wind blows new leaves on from all the other dandelions nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blows	nsubj
3	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leaves	amod
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blows	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	11 dandelions	case
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 dandelions	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 dandelions	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dandelions	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dandelions	amod
11	dandelions	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blows	obl
12	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	3 blows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	the wind	new leaves		all other dandelions		nearby property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

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