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Test 8 · ★ · Evolution simply: why living things change over many gener…

A farmer wants a cabbage with huge flower buds. What should she do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: want, do · To what, where: cabbage

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 73 «Evolution simply: why living things change over many generations» 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: A farmer wants a cabbage with huge flower buds.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cabbage	det
5	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 buds	case
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 buds	amod
8	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 buds	compound
9	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cabbage	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a farmer	a cabbage				with huge flower buds	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cabbage=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: What should she do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	farmer						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Keep seeds from the plants with the biggest buds, year after year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 plants	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plants	det
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 buds	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 buds	det
8	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 buds	amod
9	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 year	punct
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 buds	conj
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 year	case
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	seeds		the plants	year	with the biggest buds and year	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer seed=Beneficiary from plant=Eventuality

Option 2

Water them with milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Water	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 milk	case
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Water	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	water	imperative	you not said here	them = they				with milk	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with milk=Theme

Option 3

Plant them upside down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Plant	obj
3	upside	upside	ADV	_	1 Plant	advmod
4	down	down	ADV	_	1 Plant	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant down	imperative	you not said here	them = they				down, upside property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Shout at the plants every morning until they grow bigger buds out of fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 plants	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plants	det
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shout	obl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obl:unmarked
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 grow	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grow	nsubj
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Shout	advcl
10	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 buds	amod
11	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grow	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	14 fear	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 fear	case
14	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here			the plants	morning		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	present	plants = plant	bigger buds		fear			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bud=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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