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Test 5 · ★ · Roots, stems and leaves

Why would a cactus open its stomata at night instead of during the day?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓

This is test 5 · ★ 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 open	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 open	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cactus	det
4	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	obl:unmarked
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stomata	nmod:poss
7	stomata	stomata	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 open	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	obl
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	14 day	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	during	during	ADP	_	14 day	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 night	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Cacti only breathe in the dark, just like bats do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cacti	cactus	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breathe	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 breathe	advmod
3	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breathe	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 bats	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 bats	case
10	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 do	nsubj
11	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 breathe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	present	Cacti			the dark			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	bats						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is hiding from bees

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 hiding	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hiding	aux
3	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 bees	case
5	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present · progressive	It					from bees	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from bee=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It loses much less water in the cool 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	2 loses	nsubj
2	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 less	advmod
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loses	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
8	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	It	less water			night		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality

Option 4

The hot Sun burns the tiny holes shut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sun	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Sun	amod
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 burns	nsubj
4	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 holes	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 holes	amod
7	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burns	obj
8	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 holes	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	the hot Sun	the tiny holes					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
2	shut	participle		the tiny holes not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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