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Test 2 · ★ · Carnivorous and strange plants

Mia keeps poking her flytrap to watch it snap. Why is that bad for it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, flytrap · What happens: keep, poke, watch, snap, be · To what, where: flytrap

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Mia keeps poking her flytrap to watch it snap.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poking	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 flytrap	nmod:poss
5	flytrap	flytrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poking	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 watch	mark
7	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 poking	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 watch	obj
9	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 watch	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Mia						tree rules
2	poke	gerund	Mia not said here	Mia's flytrap					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flytrap=Theme
3	watch	to-infinitive	Mia not said here	flytrap					tree rules
4	snap	infinitive	flytrap not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «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.

Sentence 2: Why is that bad for it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 bad	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 bad	mark
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bad	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						for flytrap; bad property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It makes the plant poisonous

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plant	det
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the plant				poisonous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material plant=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Each trap can only close a few times, and closing empty wastes energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 trap	det
2	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 close	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 close	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 close	advmod
5	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 times	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 times	amod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 close	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wastes	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wastes	cc
11	closing	close	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 wastes	csubj
12	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 closing	xcomp
13	wastes	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 close	conj
14	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wastes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	can	each trap				time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	close	gerund						empty property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	waste	present	closing	energy					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient

Option 3

It teaches the trap to bite people

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 teaches	nsubj
2	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trap	det
4	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 teaches	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bite	mark
6	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trap	acl
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present	It	the trap					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trap=Recipient
2	bite	to-infinitive		people					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 4

It makes the trap grow far too big for the pot

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trap	det
4	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 big	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	parataxis
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 pot	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pot	det
11	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 big	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the trap					tree rules
2	grow	present	the trap not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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