Test 8 · Parts of a plant and what each does

Why do seeds carry their own food store?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: seeds · What happens: carry · To what, where: own food store

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 carry	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 carry	aux
3	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	nsubj
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 store	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 store	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 store	compound
8	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carry	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 carry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present · do-support	seeds	seeds's own food store					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=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 · ✓ the right answer

To feed the young plant before it has leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 feed	mark
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plant	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plant	amod
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feed	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 has	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 feed	advcl
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive		the young plant					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Recipient
2	have	present	plant	leaves					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 2

To attract animals that eat roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 attract	mark
2	attract	attract	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attract	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 animals	acl:relcl
6	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attract	to-infinitive		animals					vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
2	eat	present	animals	roots					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient

Option 3

To feed the soil around the seed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 feed	mark
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soil	det
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feed	obj
5	around	around	ADP	_	7 seed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seed	det
7	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive		the soil		the seed			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

To make the seed heavier, so it sinks into the soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seed	det
4	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sinks	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 sinks	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sinks	nsubj
9	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	parataxis
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 soil	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 soil	det
12	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sinks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the seed				heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seed=Product
2	sink	present	seed			the soil			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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