Test 2 · Seeds and fruit and how they travel

Why would a plant want its seeds to land far from it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: plant, seeds · What happens: want, land · To what, where: seeds

This is test 2 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 want	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plant	det
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 seeds	nmod:poss
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 want	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 land	mark
9	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 land	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 far	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	would	a plant	plant's seeds					tree rules
2	land not said to happen	to-infinitive	plant's seeds not said here					far property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «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

Because the soil right round the parent plant is always poisonous to seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	11 poisonous	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soil	det
3	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 poisonous	nsubj
4	right	right	ADV	_	8 plant	advmod
5	round	round	ADP	_	8 plant	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plant	det
7	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plant	compound
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soil	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 poisonous	cop
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 poisonous	advmod
11	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 seeds	case
13	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 poisonous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the soil round the parent plant					to seeds; always, poisonous property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

So the young plants don't fight the parent for light, water and space

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	7 fight	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plants	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plants	amod
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fight	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fight	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fight	advmod
7	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 parent	det
9	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fight	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 light	case
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fight	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 water	punct
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 light	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 space	cc
15	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 light	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fight	present · do-support	the young plants	the parent				for light and water and space	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Co-Agent

Option 3

So birds find them more easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 find	advmod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 find	nsubj
3	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 easily	advmod
6	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	birds	them = they				easily property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

Option 4

So it can get a rest from its children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rest	det
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 children	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	can	it	a rest				from rest's children	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rest=Theme from child=Source

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