Test 13 · ★ · Chores and broken things

plant looks sad, water it every day loads?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: plant · What happens: look · To what, where: sad water

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 111 «Chores and broken things» of the everyday 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	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sad	punct
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	obl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 loads	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loads	compound
9	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looks	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	plant	sad water				water obl	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Attribute

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

Only ever water the leaves, not the soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 water	advmod
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 water	advmod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 water	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 soil	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 soil	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 soil	det
9	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	conj

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

Option 2

Yes, lots of water every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 lots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lots	nmod
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lots	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Water it when the soil feels dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Water	obj
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 feels	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soil	det
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feels	nsubj
6	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Water	advcl
7	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feels	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	water	imperative	you not said here	it					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
2	feel	present	the soil					dry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Never water it, plants find their own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 water	advmod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	nsubj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 find	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 find	nsubj
6	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	water	plants's own					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Topic

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