Test 5 · ★★ · Flowers and pollination

Why would a flower want only one kind of visitor?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: flower · What happens: want · To what, where: one kind

This is test 5 · ★★ 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 want	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flower	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 kind	nummod
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 visitor	case
10	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kind	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	would	a flower	one kind of visitor					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kind=Theme

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

Other visitors steal the petals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 visitors	amod
2	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 steal	nsubj
3	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 petals	det
5	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present	Other visitors	the petals					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location petal=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

So pollen goes to a flower of the same kind, not wasted on others

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 goes	advmod
2	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 flower	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flower	det
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 kind	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kind	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kind	amod
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flower	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wasted	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 wasted	advmod
13	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 goes	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 others	case
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	pollen			a flower of the same kind			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to flower=Initial_Location
2	not waste	participle	pollen not said here					on others goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on other=Goal

Option 3

It runs out of nectar far too fast when lots of different insects come

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 runs	nsubj
2	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	5 nectar	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 nectar	case
5	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 runs	obl
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 fast	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 runs	advmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 come	advmod
10	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 come	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 insects	case
12	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 insects	amod
13	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lots	nmod
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 runs	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	It			nectar		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out nectar=Trajectory
2	come	present	lots of different insects						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It does not like crowds

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	4 like	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	It	crowds					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crowd=Theme

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