Test 4 · Parts of a plant and what each does

Which statement about plant food is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement · What happens: be

This is test 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 true	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 food	case
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	compound
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 statement	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 true	cop
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which statement about plant food					true property	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

Plants get all their food from rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 food	det:predet
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 food	nmod:poss
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 rain	case
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Plants	Plants's food		rain			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from rain=Source

Option 2

Plants eat soil to get their food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eat	advcl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 food	nmod:poss
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Plants	soil					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient
2	get	to-infinitive	Plants not said here	Plants's food					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Plants make their own food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 food	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Plants	Plants's own food					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product

Option 4

Plants get their food from insects

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 food	nmod:poss
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 insects	case
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Plants	Plants's food				from insects	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from insect=Source

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