Test 9 · Seeds and fruit and how they travel

blackbird ate the rowan berries then pooed the seeds out on our car. gross. seeds dead?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: blackbird, rowan berries · What happens: eat, poo out · To what, where: gross, seeds, car

This is test 9 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	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 berries	det
4	rowan	rowan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 berries	compound
5	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pooed	nsubj
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 pooed	advmod
7	pooed	poo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 seeds	det
9	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pooed	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	7 pooed	compound:prt
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 car	case
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 car	nmod:poss
13	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pooed	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct
15	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obl:unmarked
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct
17	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dead	nsubj
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ate	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	blackbird	gross					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	poo out	past	the rowan berries	the seeds		our car	then		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

Yes, but only in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 winter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 winter	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 winter	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

No, because they never went in, it spat them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 spat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spat	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 went	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 went	advmod
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spat	advcl
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spat	nsubj
10	spat	spat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spat	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 spat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go in	past	they						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spat out	present	it	them = they					tree rules

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

No, they pass through unharmed and can still grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 pass	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pass	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pass	nsubj
4	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADV	_	4 pass	advmod
6	unharmed	unharmed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pass	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grow	cc
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 grow	aux
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 grow	advmod
10	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pass	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass through	present	they					through, unharmed property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	can	they not said here				still		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, the bird's tummy digests every seed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 digests	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tummy	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 bird	case
6	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 digests	nsubj
7	digests	digest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 seed	det
9	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 digests	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	digest	present	the bird's tummy	every seed					tree rules

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