Test 3 · Seeds and fruit and how they travel

How could you test which helicopter seeds fall slowest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, helicopter seeds · What happens: test, fall · To what, where: slowest

This is test 3 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 test	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 test	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 test	nsubj
4	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fall	obj
6	helicopter	helicopter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seeds	compound
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fall	nsubj
8	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 test	ccomp
9	slowest	slow	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 fall	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	could	you						tree rules
2	fall	present	helicopter seeds	slowest					vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient which=Result

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 · ✓ the right answer

Drop them from the same height and time each, one change at a time

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Drop	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 height	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 height	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 height	amod
6	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drop	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 time	cc
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 height	conj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	nmod:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 change	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 change	nummod
12	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 height	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 time	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	imperative	you not said here	them = they		the same height and time each and one change	time		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme from height=Destination

Option 2

Throw them as hard as you can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 hard	advmod
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Throw	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 can	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 can	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	them = they				hard property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Count how many are on the ground under the tree after a windy night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Count	obj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 many	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Count	obl
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Count	obl
11	after	after	ADP	_	14 night	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 night	det
13	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 night	amod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here				night	under the tree; on the ground	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on ground=Theme
2	is	present						many property	tree rules

Option 4

Paint them and see which looks fastest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paint	paint	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Paint	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 see	cc
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Paint	conj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 looks	nsubj
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	ccomp
7	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	paint	imperative	you not said here	them = they	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination
2	see	infinitive	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	look	present		fastest	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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