Test 9 · ★★ · Flowers and pollination

Why would a flower close when it rains?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: rain

This is test 9 · ★★ 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 close	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 close	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flower	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 close	nsubj
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 rains	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rains	nsubj
8	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 close	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 close	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	present	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.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 · ← Mova's choice

Because the petals drown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 drown	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 petals	det
3	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drown	nsubj
4	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	present	the petals						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To catch the raindrops inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 catch	mark
2	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 raindrops	det
4	raindrops	raindrop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catch	obj
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 catch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	to-infinitive		the raindrops				inside property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raindrop=Theme

Option 3

To trap the insects that are sheltering inside it from the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 trap	mark
2	trap	trap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 insects	det
4	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trap	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sheltering	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sheltering	aux
7	sheltering	shelter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 insects	acl:relcl
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sheltering	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 rain	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rain	det
12	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trap	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	to-infinitive		the insects		the rain			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient
2	shelter	present · progressive	the insects			it			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside it=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To keep its pollen dry and safe until the sun comes back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pollen	nmod:poss
4	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 safe	cc
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dry	conj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 comes	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 comes	nsubj
11	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		its pollen				dry property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme
2	come back	present	the sun						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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