Test 3 · ★★ · Flowers and pollination

Why might a plant pollinated by moths have white flowers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: moths · What happens: pollinate, have · To what, where: plant, white flowers

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 pollinated	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pollinated	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plant	det
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pollinated	nsubj:pass
5	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 have	mark
7	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pollinated	advcl
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flowers	amod
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pollinated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pollinate	might · passive		a plant					tree rules
2	have	present	moths	white flowers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=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

Pale petals show up best in the dim evening light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 petals	amod
2	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	nsubj
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 show	compound:prt
5	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 show	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 light	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 light	det
8	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 light	amod
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 light	compound
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show up	present	Pale petals			the dim evening light		well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location

Option 2

White flowers are cheaper to make than coloured ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flowers	amod
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cheaper	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cheaper	cop
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cheaper	xcomp
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 ones	case
8	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	White flowers					cheap property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	White flowers not said here					than coloured ones	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3

Moths eat only white food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 white	advmod
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Moths	white food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 4

Moths are scared of colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 colours	case
5	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Moths					of colours; scared property	tree rules

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