Test 13 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

these purple flowers smell nice, can i eat one

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purple flowers, i · What happens: smell, eat · To what, where: one

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 237 «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» 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	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 flowers	det
2	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flowers	amod
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smell	nsubj
4	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smell	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eat	punct
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	aux
8	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 eat	nsubj
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 smell	conj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	this purple flowers					nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	eat	can	i	one					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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

Yes, if it's pretty n smells nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 nice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 smells	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 smells	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 smells	cop
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	8 smells	advmod
7	n	n	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 smells	amod
8	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nice	nsubj
9	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	n smells				pretty property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, many flowers are poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 poisonous	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flowers	amod
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 poisonous	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 poisonous	cop
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	many flowers					poisonous property	tree rules

Option 3

Only the petals, they're fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 petals	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 petals	det
3	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fine	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 petals	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fine	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the petals					fine property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, flowers are safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 safe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 safe	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safe	cop
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	flowers					safe property	tree rules

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