Test 6 · ★ · Carnivorous and strange plants

Jake reckons sunflowers turn to the Sun all their lives, even when old. Right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, sunflowers · What happens: reckon, turn · To what, where: lives

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Jake reckons sunflowers turn to the Sun all their lives, even when old.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sunflowers	sunflower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reckons	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 lives	det:predet
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 lives	nmod:poss
10	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 old	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	14 old	advmod
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 old	mark
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Jake						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	turn	infinitive	sunflowers	sunflowers's lives				to the Sun result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent life=Theme to sun=Result

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: Right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

No, only young ones do; grown flower heads stop and mostly face east

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 ones	advmod
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	advcl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
8	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 heads	amod
9	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heads	compound
10	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stop	nsubj
11	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 face	cc
13	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	14 face	advmod
14	face	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	conj
15	east	east	ADV	_	14 face	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present	young ones		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	present	grown flower heads		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	face	present	grown flower heads not said here	east, mostly property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

No, they never move at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 move	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 move	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 move	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 move	advmod
5	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	present	they			all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 3

No, they turn away from the Sun to keep cool, all their lives, young or old

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 turn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turn	nsubj
4	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 Sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turn	advcl
11	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keep	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 lives	det:predet
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lives	nmod:poss
15	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 young	punct
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	parataxis
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 old	cc
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 young	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn away	present	they	their lives		the Sun		away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent life=Theme from sun=Source
2	keep	to-infinitive	they not said here					cool property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they turn every day until they die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 turn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turn	nsubj
4	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obj
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 die	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 die	nsubj
9	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	they				day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	die	present	they						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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