Test 13 · Parts of a plant and what each does

Tom says a potato is a root like a carrot. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom, potato · What happens: say, be · To what, where: root · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 potato	det
4	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 root	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 root	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 root	det
7	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 carrot	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 carrot	det
10	carrot	carrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 root	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Tom						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a potato	a root				like a carrot	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, a potato is an underground stem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 stem	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 potato	det
4	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stem	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stem	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stem	det
7	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stem	amod
8	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a potato	a underground stem					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, potatoes and carrots are both roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 roots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 roots	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 carrots	cc
5	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 potatoes	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 roots	cop
7	both	both	ADV	_	8 roots	advmod
8	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	potatoes and carrots	roots				both property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, a potato is a root with eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 root	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 potato	det
4	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 root	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 root	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 root	det
7	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 root	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a potato	a root				with eyes	tree rules

Option 4

No, a potato is a fruit of the plant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 fruit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 potato	det
4	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fruit	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fruit	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fruit	det
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 plant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plant	det
10	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fruit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a potato	a fruit				of the plant	tree rules

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