Test 6 · Seeds and fruit and how they travel

Why might an oak tree grow better far from its parent?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: oak tree · What happens: grow

This is test 6 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 grow	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 grow	aux
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
4	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grow	nsubj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 far	advmod
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 grow	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 parent	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 parent	nmod:poss
11	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 far	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	might	a oak tree					far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

It misses its parent and grows angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 misses	nsubj
2	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 parent	nmod:poss
4	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 misses	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grows	cc
6	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 misses	conj
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grows	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	present	It	its parent					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus
2	grow	present						angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Oaks grow better in the deep shade of other, bigger oaks around them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 grow	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 shade	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shade	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shade	amod
7	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 other	case
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shade	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 oaks	punct
11	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 oaks	amod
12	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl
13	around	around	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 oaks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Oaks	bigger oaks around them		the deep shade of other		well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shade=Location

Option 3

Acorns only grow near water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Acorns			water			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near water=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It gets more light and doesn't share water and soil with a giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 light	amod
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 share	cc
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 share	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 share	advmod
8	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gets	conj
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 share	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 soil	cc
11	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	conj
12	with	with	SCONJ	_	14 giant	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 giant	det
14	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 share	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	It	more light					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
2	not share	present · do-support		water and soil					tree rules

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