Test 8 · ★★ · Flowers and pollination

why the hell does that flower stink like a bin full of dead meat?!

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hell · What happens: do · To what, where: flower stink

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	4 does	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hell	det
3	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 stink	det
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stink	compound
7	stink	stink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 bin	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bin	det
10	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bin	amod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 meat	case
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 meat	amod
14	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 full	obl
15	?!	?!	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the hell	that flower stink				like a bin	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stink=Eventuality

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

Someone put meat in the pot as a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pot	det
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 joke	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 joke	det
9	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	Someone	meat		the pot		as a joke	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Theme in pot=Destination

Option 2

It is rotting and dying

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	3 rotting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rotting	aux
3	rotting	rot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dying	cc
5	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 rotting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	present · progressive	It						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	die	gerund							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It attracts flies and beetles that carry its pollen

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 attracts	nsubj
2	attracts	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attracts	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 beetles	cc
5	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flies	conj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 carry	nsubj
7	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 flies	acl:relcl
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pollen	nmod:poss
9	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attract	present	It	flies and beetles					vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient
2	carry	present	flies and beetles	its pollen					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme

Option 4

It is warning people not to touch it, because it is very poisonous

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	3 warning	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 warning	aux
3	warning	warn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warning	obj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 touch	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 touch	mark
7	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 warning	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 touch	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 poisonous	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 poisonous	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 poisonous	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 poisonous	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 poisonous	advmod
14	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 warning	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present · progressive	It		people		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not touch	to-infinitive		it			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
3	is	present	it			poisonous property	tree rules

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