Test 11 · ★ · Leaves, fruit and colour in nature

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 28 «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» of the chemistry 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true 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 · ← Mova's choice

Chlorophyll makes leaves green so they look nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chlorophyll	chlorophyll	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 look	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 look	nsubj
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	advcl
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Chlorophyll	leaves				green property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leaf=Product
2	look	present	leaves = leaf					nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Chlorophyll is made only in autumn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chlorophyll	chlorophyll	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 autumn	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 autumn	case
6	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Chlorophyll			autumn		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Plants use the light chlorophyll soaks up to make food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chlorophyll	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chlorophyll	compound
5	chlorophyll	chlorophyll	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soaks	nsubj
6	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 use	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	2 use	compound:prt
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 use	advcl
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use up	present	Plants		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	soak up	present	the light chlorophyll		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive	Plants not said here	food	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product

Option 4

Chlorophyll reflects red light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chlorophyll	chlorophyll	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reflects	nsubj
2	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 light	amod
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reflects	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	present	Chlorophyll	red light					tree rules

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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