Test 6 · ★★ · Flowers and pollination
A sunflower head has 55 spirals one way. What does that tell you?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sunflower head, that · What happens: have, tell · To what, where: 55 spirals, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: A sunflower head has 55 spirals one way.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 head | det |
| 2 | sunflower | sunflower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 head | compound |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 spirals | nummod |
| 6 | spirals | spiral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 way | nummod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spirals | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a sunflower head | 55 spirals one way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spiral=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.
Sentence 2: What does that tell you?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 tell | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · do-support | that | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
It is 55 days old
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 | 5 old | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | cop |
| 3 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 old | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | day | old property | tree rules |
Option 2
It has 55 seeds only
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 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 seeds | nummod |
| 4 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 2 has | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | It | 55 seeds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Its tiny flowers and seeds are packed in a special spiral pattern
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flowers | amod |
| 3 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 packed | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 seeds | cc |
| 5 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flowers | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 packed | aux:pass |
| 7 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pattern | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pattern | det |
| 10 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pattern | amod |
| 11 | spiral | spiral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pattern | amod |
| 12 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 packed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | present · passive | Its tiny flowers and seeds | a special spiral pattern | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in pattern=Destination |
Option 4
It has been visited by 55 bees, and each one left behind a spiral track
The tree, 15 words
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 visited | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 visited | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 visited | aux:pass |
| 4 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 bees | case |
| 6 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 bees | nummod |
| 7 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 visited | obl:agent |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 one | cc |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 visited | conj |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 one | acl |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 track | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 track | det |
| 15 | spiral | spiral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 track | amod |
| 16 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present · perfect · passive | 55 bees | It | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | each one not said here | a spiral track | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind track=Location |
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