Test 12 · ★★ · Flowers and pollination

How would a moth find a flower in the dark?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moth · What happens: find · To what, where: flower, dark

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 58 «Flowers and pollination» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 find	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moth	det
4	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	nsubj
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flower	det
7	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dark	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dark	det
10	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	a moth	a flower		the dark			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic

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

By following bees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 following	mark
2	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 following	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund		bees					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Theme

Option 2

By its heat in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 heat	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 heat	nmod:poss
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	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 heat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat		its = it			the dark			nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

By its loud buzzing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 buzzing	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 buzzing	nmod:poss
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 buzzing	amod
4	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

By its strong scent and pale colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 scent	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 scent	nmod:poss
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scent	amod
4	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 colour	cc
6	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 colour	amod
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scent	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scent		its = it						nom scent «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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