Exam question 4 · How plants make their food

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the respiration of plants?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: plants · What happens: follow, characteris, respire · To what, where: respiration

This is exam question 4 of lesson 22 «How plants make their food» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 respiration	det
10	respiration	respiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 plants	case
12	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 respiration	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the respiration of plants	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	respire		plants			nom respiration «act intransitive»: of=agent

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 right answer

They respire day and night, but in daylight produce more oxygen than they consume

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 respire	nsubj
2	respire	respire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 respire	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 night	cc
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 produce	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 produce	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 daylight	case
9	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 produce	obl
10	produce	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 respire	conj
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 oxygen	amod
12	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 produce	obj
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 consume	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 consume	nsubj
15	consume	consume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 produce	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	respire	present	They			day	tree rules
2	produce	present	They not said here	more oxygen	daylight		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Result
3	consume	present	they				vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They do not respire at any time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 respire	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 respire	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 respire	advmod
4	respire	respire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 respire	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not respire	present · do-support	They				time		tree rules

Option 3

They respire solely during the night, photosynthesis replacing respiration by day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 respire	nsubj
2	respire	respire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	solely	solely	ADV	_	2 respire	advmod
4	during	during	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 respire	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 photosynthesis	punct
8	photosynthesis	photosynthesis	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 night	conj
9	replacing	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 photosynthesis	acl
10	respiration	respiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replacing	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 day	case
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replacing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	respire	present	They				night	solely property	tree rules
2	replace	gerund	photosynthesis not said here	respiration			day		vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme respiration=Co-Theme

Option 4

They respire solely during the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 respire	nsubj
2	respire	respire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	solely	solely	ADV	_	2 respire	advmod
4	during	during	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 respire	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	respire	present	They				day	solely property	tree rules

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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