Test 5 · Seeds and fruit and how they travel

Why are many unripe fruits green, hard and sour?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: many unripe fruits · What happens: be

This is test 5 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	6 green	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 green	cop
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fruits	amod
4	unripe	unripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fruits	amod
5	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 green	nsubj
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hard	punct
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 green	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sour	cc
10	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 green	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 green	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	many unripe fruits	green property	tree rules
2	be		many unripe fruits not said here		tree rules
3	be		many unripe fruits not said here		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

So they look like leaves to the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 look	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 leaves	case
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	they					like leaves; to the Sun	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sun=Theme

Option 2

Because they are a different kind of fruit from the ripe ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 kind	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kind	amod
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fruit	case
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 ones	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ones	det
11	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	a different kind				of fruit; from the ripe ones	tree rules

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

So animals don't eat them before the seeds are ready

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 ready	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 seeds	det
9	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ready	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ready	cop
11	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · do-support	animals	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	is	present	the seeds					ready property	tree rules

Option 4

Because they are still cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 cold	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cold	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they				still	cold property	tree rules

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