Test 7 · Parts of a plant and what each does

What would happen to a plant whose stem was crushed so its tubes broke?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tubes · What happens: happen, crush, break · To what, where: stem

This is test 7 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 plant	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plant	det
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 stem	nmod:poss
8	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crushed	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 crushed	aux:pass
10	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 plant	acl:relcl
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 broke	mark
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tubes	nmod:poss
13	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 broke	nsubj
14	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 crushed	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to a plant	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crush	past · passive		stem		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	break	past	stem's tubes			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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 would make more flowers

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	3 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 flowers	amod
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj

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

Option 2

Its roots would grow leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 roots	nmod:poss
2	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Its roots	leaves					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Water could not reach its leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reach	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reach	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 reach	advmod
4	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 leaves	nmod:poss
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	could	Water	Water's leaves					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would make food faster

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	3 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	It	food				fast property	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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