Test 11 · Seeds and fruit and how they travel

How might a seed that waits a long time help a plant survive bad years?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: seed, plant · What happens: wait, help, survive · To what, where: plant

This is test 11 of lesson 59 «Seeds and fruit and how they travel» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 seed	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 seed	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 seed	det
4	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 waits	nsubj
6	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seed	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waits	obj
10	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 plant	det
12	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	obj
13	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 help	xcomp
14	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 years	amod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 survive	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	present	a seed		time	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help	present	a seed	a plant		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent plant=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	survive	infinitive	a plant not said here		year	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

It can sprout later, when the drought or cold is over

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 sprout	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sprout	aux
3	sprout	sprout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 sprout	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sprout	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 over	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drought	det
8	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 over	nsubj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 cold	cc
10	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drought	conj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 over	cop
12	over	over	ADV	_	3 sprout	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprout	can	It					late property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	is	present	the drought or cold					over property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It can't, waiting always kills seeds after a year or two in the soil

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	5 waiting	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 waiting	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 waiting	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 waiting	punct
5	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 kills	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 kills	advmod
7	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kills	obj
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 year	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kills	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 two	cc
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 year	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 soil	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 soil	det
16	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kills	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wait	can	It						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill	present		seeds		the soil	year	always property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme

Option 3

It keeps the parent plant alive

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 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plant	det
4	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plant	compound
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	the parent plant				alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme

Option 4

It turns into a new kind of plant

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 kind	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kind	amod
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 plant	case
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It			a new kind of plant			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into kind=Trajectory

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