Test 9 · Parts of a plant and what each does

Which part of a plant lets water vapour escape into the air?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: part · What happens: let, escape · To what, where: air

This is test 9 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 part	det
2	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lets	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 plant	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plant	det
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 part	nmod
6	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vapour	compound
8	vapour	vapour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 escape	compound
9	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lets	xcomp
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 air	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 air	det
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 escape	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	which part of a plant						tree rules
2	escape	infinitive	which part of a plant not said here			the air			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location

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 centre of the flower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 centre	det
2	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 flower	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flower	det
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 centre	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The hard skin of the seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 skin	det
2	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 skin	amod
3	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 seeds	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seeds	det
6	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 skin	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The tips of the roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tips	det
2	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 roots	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 roots	det
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tips	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tiny holes in the leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 holes	amod
2	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 leaves	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 holes	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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