Test 12 · Parts of a plant and what each does

Mia reckons plants eat soil to grow. right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, plants · What happens: reckon, eat, grow · To what, where: soil

This is test 12 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckons	ccomp
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 grow	mark
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 soil	acl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
9	right	right	ADV	_	2 reckons	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Mia		right property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	eat	present	plants	soil		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient
3	grow	to-infinitive	plants not said here	soil not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Yes, plants eat the soil through their roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soil	det
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 roots	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 roots	nmod:poss
9	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	plants	the soil		plants's roots			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient

Option 2

Yes, soil is the main food of all plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 food	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 food	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 food	det
6	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 plants	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 plants	det
10	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 food	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	soil	the main food				of all plants	tree rules

Option 3

No, plants eat the insects in the soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 insects	det
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 soil	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 soil	det
9	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	plants	the insects		the soil			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, plants make their food from light, air and water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 food	nmod:poss
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 light	case
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 air	punct
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 light	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 water	cc
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 light	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	plants	plants's food		light and air and water			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from light=Material

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