Test 4 · ★ · Carnivorous and strange plants

What would happen to a flytrap kept in a bog with no insects for a whole summer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, keep · To what, where: flytrap, bog

This is test 4 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 flytrap	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flytrap	det
6	flytrap	flytrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 flytrap	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bog	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bog	det
10	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 insects	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 insects	det
13	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 summer	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 summer	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 summer	amod
17	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a flytrap	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	participle		a flytrap not said here		a bog	summer	with no insects	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bog=Location

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

It would slowly turn into a sundew so that it could catch flies another way

The tree, 15 words

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	4 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 sundew	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sundew	det
7	sundew	sundew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 catch	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 catch	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 catch	aux
12	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turn	advcl
13	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 catch	obj
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 catch	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a sundew		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sundew=Trajectory
2	catch	could	sundew	flies				another way obl:unmarked	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme

Option 2

It would starve to death in a day

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	3 starve	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 starve	aux
3	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 starve	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 starve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	would	It				day	to death	tree rules

Option 3

It would start eating the soil instead

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	3 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 start	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soil	det
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 start	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	It					instead property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund		the soil					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient

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

It would live on sunlight but grow weaker without the minerals

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	3 live	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 live	aux
3	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 sunlight	case
5	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 grow	cc
7	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 live	conj
8	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 grow	xcomp
9	without	without	ADP	_	11 minerals	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 minerals	det
11	minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	would	It			sunlight			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sunlight=Location
2	grow	present						without the minerals; weak property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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