Test 10 · ★ · Carnivorous and strange plants

ugh why does a flower wanna smell like dead meat?? that's gross

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: that · What happens: do, be · To what, where: wanna smell

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 61 «Carnivorous and strange plants» 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	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	3 does	discourse
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 does	advmod
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 smell	det
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanna	compound
6	wanna	wanna	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smell	compound
7	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 meat	case
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 meat	amod
10	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smell	nmod
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	14 gross	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 gross	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 gross	cop
14	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 does	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a wanna smell				like dead meat	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Eventuality
2	is	present	that					gross property	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

Because it eats dead animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 eats	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eats	nsubj
3	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	it	dead animals					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient

Option 2

Because it is already dead inside and rotting from the roots up, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 dead	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 dead	advmod
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mate	advcl
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 dead	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rotting	cc
8	rotting	rot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dead	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 roots	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 roots	det
11	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rotting	obl
12	up	up	ADP	_	8 rotting	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					dead, inside property	tree rules
2	rot up	gerund				the roots			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

To make people throw it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 throw	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 throw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		people					tree rules
2	throw away	infinitive	people not said here	it				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To call flies and beetles that visit dead animals to carry its pollen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 call	mark
2	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 call	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 beetles	cc
5	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flies	conj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 visit	nsubj
7	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 flies	acl:relcl
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 visit	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 carry	mark
11	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 visit	advcl
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pollen	nmod:poss
13	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	call	to-infinitive			flies and beetles	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fly=Recipient
2	visit	present	flies and beetles	dead animals		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Co-Agent
3	carry	to-infinitive	flies and beetles not said here	its pollen		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme

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