Test 10 · Parts of a plant and what each does

why do plants have roots anyway

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plants · What happens: have · To what, where: roots

This is test 10 of lesson 21 «Parts of a plant and what each does» of the world 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	4 have	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	plants	roots				anyway property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=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

To breathe in all the air it needs from under the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 breathe	mark
2	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 air	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 air	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breathe	obl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 needs	nsubj
8	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 air	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 ground	case
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breathe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	to-infinitive				all air		from the ground	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	need	present	air	all air not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot air=Theme

Option 2

To make the seeds of the plant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seeds	det
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 plant	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plant	det
7	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the seeds of the plant					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seed=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To make food from the sunlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 sunlight	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sunlight	det
6	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		food		the sunlight			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To hold the plant in the ground and take in water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hold	mark
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plant	det
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 take	cc
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hold	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	9 take	compound:prt
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	to-infinitive		the plant		the ground			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plant=Theme in ground=Location
2	take in	present		water					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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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