Test 4 · ★★ · Flowers and pollination

Why do grasses not bother with bright petals?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: grasses · What happens: not bother

This is test 4 · ★★ 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 bother	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bother	aux
3	grasses	grass	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bother	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 bother	advmod
5	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 petals	case
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 petals	amod
8	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bother	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bother	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bother	present · do-support	grasses					with bright petals	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Grasses are too poor to make colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grasses	grass	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poor	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 poor	advmod
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 poor	advcl
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj

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

Option 2

Bright petals would be eaten by cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 petals	amod
2	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eaten	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eaten	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 eaten	aux:pass
5	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 cows	case
7	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would · passive	cows	Bright petals					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3

Grass petals are hidden underground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 petals	compound
2	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hidden	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hidden	aux:pass
4	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	underground	underground	ADV	_	4 hidden	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present · passive		Grass petals				underground property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The wind carries their pollen, and the wind does not see colour

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 carries	nsubj
3	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pollen	nmod:poss
5	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carries	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 see	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	nsubj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 see	advmod
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 carries	advcl
13	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	the wind	their pollen					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme
2	not see	present · do-support	the wind	colour					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus

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