Test 4 · ★ · Plants that sting, scratch and poison

Why do grown-ups keep a piece of the plant a child has eaten?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: grown ups, child · What happens: grow, keep, eat · To what, where: piece

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 keep	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grown	aux
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ups	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 grown	punct
5	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keep	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 eaten	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 piece	det
8	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 plant	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plant	det
11	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 piece	nmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eaten	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 eaten	aux
15	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 eaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grow	present · do-support			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	grown ups	a piece of the plant	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
3	eat	present · perfect	a child		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

It can be planted later to grow a new one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 planted	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 planted	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 planted	aux:pass
4	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 planted	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 grow	mark
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 planted	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	can · passive		It				late property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	grow	to-infinitive		a new one					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It tells the doctor or poison control what the poison was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 control	cc
6	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 control	compound
7	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doctor	conj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 tells	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 poison	det
10	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 what	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	It	the doctor or poison control					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient
2	is a	past	the poison						tree rules

Option 3

It is needed so the child can eat it again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 needed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 needed	aux:pass
3	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 eat	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	aux
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needed	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · passive		It					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
2	eat	can	the child	it			again		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

It proves to everyone that the child was being naughty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 everyone	case
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 proves	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 naughty	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 naughty	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 naughty	cop
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 naughty	cop
10	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proves	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It					to everyone	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to everyone=Experiencer
2	is	past	the child					naughty property	tree rules

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