Test 3 · What really happens to things you swallow

What would happen if you planted one watermelon seed in a pot of soil and another in a jar of vinegar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, plant · To what, where: one watermelon seed, pot

This is test 3 of lesson 1 «What really happens to things you swallow» of the myths 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 planted	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 planted	nsubj
6	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 seed	nummod
8	watermelon	watermelon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seed	compound
9	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 planted	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 pot	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pot	det
12	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 planted	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 soil	case
14	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pot	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 another	cc
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 pot	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 jar	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 jar	det
19	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 another	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 vinegar	case
21	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jar	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	plant a condition, not said to happen	past	you	one watermelon seed		a pot of soil			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seed=Theme in pot=Destination

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

Neither could ever sprout in any way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	4 sprout	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sprout	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 sprout	advmod
4	sprout	sprout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprout	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprout	could				any way	ever	neither property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location

Option 2

Only the one in vinegar would sprout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 one	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sprout	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 vinegar	case
5	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	nmod
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sprout	aux
7	sprout	sprout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprout	would	the one in vinegar						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The one in soil might sprout; the one in vinegar would not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sprout	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 soil	case
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	nmod
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sprout	aux
6	sprout	sprout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 would	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 would	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 vinegar	case
11	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	nmod
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sprout	advcl
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 would	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprout	might	the one in soil						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 4

Both would sprout quickly in a few days, because seeds are tough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sprout	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sprout	aux
3	sprout	sprout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 sprout	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 days	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 days	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sprout	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tough	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 tough	mark
11	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tough	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tough	cop
13	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sprout	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprout	would	Both				day	quickly property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	is	present	seeds					tough property	tree rules

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