Test 12 · Seeds and fruit and how they travel

Is a banana in the shop full of real seeds like in old cartoons?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: banana, shop

This is test 12 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 banana	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 banana	det
3	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 shop	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shop	det
6	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banana	nmod
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shop	amod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 seeds	case
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seeds	amod
10	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 full	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 cartoons	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 cartoons	case
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cartoons	amod
14	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seeds	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 banana	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a banana		the shop			tree rules

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

Yes, it has big hard seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seeds	amod
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seeds	amod
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	big hard seeds					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient

Option 2

No, its seeds are in the skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 skin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 seeds	nmod:poss
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 skin	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 skin	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 skin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 skin	det
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	its seeds			the skin			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it has only tiny dark dots instead of real seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 dots	advmod
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dots	amod
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dots	amod
8	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 seeds	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seeds	amod
12	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	tiny dark dots				instead real seeds	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dot=Patient

Option 4

Yes, and you must spit them all out like cherry stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 spit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spit	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spit	cc
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 spit	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 spit	aux
6	spit	spit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spit	obj
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 out	advmod
9	out	out	ADV	_	6 spit	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 stones	case
11	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stones	compound
12	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spit	must	you	them = they				like cherry stones; out property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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