Test 11 · Parts of a plant and what each does

wots the flower even for

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: wot · To what, where: flower

This is test 11 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	wots	wot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flower	det
3	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wots	obj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 for	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	1 wots	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wot	present		the flower					tree rules

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 holds the plant in the soil

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 holds	nsubj
2	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plant	det
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holds	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 soil	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soil	det
7	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holds	obl

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

Option 2

It soaks up water from the rain

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 soaks	nsubj
2	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 soaks	compound:prt
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soaks	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 rain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rain	det
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak up	present	It	water		the rain			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from rain=Source

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

It makes the seeds

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seeds	det
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the seeds					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material seed=Product

Option 4

It makes the plant's food

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plant	det
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 food	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 plant	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the plant's food					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material food=Product

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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