Test 4 · Seeds and fruit and how they travel

Why would most seeds die if they were carried by sea water?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: most seeds, sea water · What happens: die, carry · To what, where: seeds

This is test 4 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 die	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 seeds	amod
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 die	nsubj
5	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 carried	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carried	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 carried	aux:pass
9	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 die	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 water	compound
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	most seeds						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	carry a condition, not said to happen	past · passive	sea water	seeds = seed					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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

They would get too cold in the deep water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	They			the deep water		cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Salt water gets in and kills them, and they sink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	compound
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 gets	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kills	cc
6	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kills	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sink	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sink	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sink	nsubj
11	sink	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get in	present	Salt water		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	kill	present	Salt water not said here	them = they	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	sink	present	they		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Sea water makes them grow far too fast and they burst

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	compound
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 fast	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 grow	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 burst	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 burst	nsubj
11	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Sea water	them = they		tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	them = they not said here		fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	burst	present	they			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Fish always eat them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	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 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Fish	them = they				always property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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