Test 6 · Parts of a plant and what each does
A cherry contains a hard stone. What is the stone?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cherry, stone · What happens: contain, be · To what, where: hard stone
This is test 6 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
Sentence 1: A cherry contains a hard stone.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cherry | det |
| 2 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 contains | nsubj |
| 3 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stone | amod |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 contains | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 contains | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | a cherry | a hard stone | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stone=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.
Sentence 2: What is the stone?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stone | det |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the stone | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A root that grows inside fruit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 root | det |
| 2 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 grows | nsubj |
| 4 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 root | acl:relcl |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 6 fruit | case |
| 6 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | a root | fruit | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside fruit=Location |
Option 2
A stem that fell into the fruit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stem | det |
| 2 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stem | acl:relcl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 fruit | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fruit | det |
| 7 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a stem | into the fruit result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into fruit=Result |
Option 3
A leaf bud that has hardened
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bud | det |
| 2 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bud | compound |
| 3 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 hardened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hardened | aux |
| 6 | hardened | harden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bud | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harden | present · perfect · passive | a leaf bud | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The seed protected by the fruit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 seed | det |
| 2 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 seed | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 fruit | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fruit | det |
| 6 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 protected | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | participle | the seed not said here | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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