Test 8 · Seeds and fruit and how they travel

Why would you keep seeds somewhere very cold and dry?

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

This is test 8 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	4 keep	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obj
6	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 cold	advmod
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 cold	advmod
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dry	cc
10	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cold	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	you	seeds					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=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 · ✓ the right answer

It slows everything down so they stay alive for a very long time

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 slows	nsubj
2	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 slows	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 slows	compound:prt
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 stay	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stay	nsubj
7	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 slows	advcl
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stay	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 time	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	present	It	everything					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
2	stay	present	they				time	alive property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

To kill the bad ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 kill	mark
2	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	to-infinitive		the bad ones					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 3

So they grow faster when they are warmed up again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 warmed	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 warmed	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 warmed	aux:pass
8	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grow	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 warmed	compound:prt
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 warmed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	they					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	warm up	present · passive		they			again		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 4

So no one can find them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 find	advmod
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	can	no one	them = they					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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