Test 11 · ★ · Roots, stems and leaves

My mate says the sensitive plant has muscles like us. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, sensitive plant · What happens: say, have · To what, where: muscles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plant	det
5	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plant	amod
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 us	case
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 muscles	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	7 has	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	the sensitive plant	muscles				like us	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient

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

No, plants have no muscles; water moving in cells makes it fold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 muscles	det
6	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 makes	punct
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makes	nsubj
9	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 water	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 cells	case
11	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 moving	obl
12	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 makes	obj
14	fold	fold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	plants	no muscles		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient
2	move	gerund	water not said here		cells	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in cell=Trajectory
3	make	present	water	it		tree rules
4	fold	infinitive				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Yes, tiny green muscles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 muscles	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 muscles	amod
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 muscles	amod
5	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yes, but only in the leaves and the stalks, not the roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 leaves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 leaves	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 leaves	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 leaves	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 leaves	det
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stalks	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stalks	det
10	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leaves	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 roots	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 roots	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roots	det
14	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leaves	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

No, someone blows on it to make it fold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 blows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blows	punct
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 blows	nsubj
4	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blows	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 blows	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
10	fold	fold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	blow	present	someone		it	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive	someone not said here	it		tree rules
3	fold	infinitive				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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