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Test 1 · ★ · How plants make their food

A plant is kept in a dark cupboard for two weeks. Why does it turn pale and weak?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: plant · What happens: keep, turn · To what, where: plant, dark cupboard

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 22 «How plants make their food» 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 plant is kept in a dark cupboard for two weeks.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plant	det
2	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 cupboard	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cupboard	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cupboard	amod
8	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 weeks	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 weeks	nummod
11	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		a plant		a dark cupboard	week		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in cupboard=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.

Sentence 2: Why does it turn pale and weak?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 turn	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turn	nsubj
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 weak	cc
7	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pale	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present · do-support	plant					pale property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It cannot make food without light

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	4 make	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 light	case
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	can	It	food				without light	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material food=Product

Option 2

It makes too much oxygen

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 oxygen	amod
5	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj

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

Option 3

It gets too much carbon dioxide

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	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dioxide	amod
5	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dioxide	compound
6	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	It	much carbon dioxide					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dioxide=Stimulus

Option 4

Darkness poisons its roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poisons	nsubj
2	poisons	poison	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 roots	nmod:poss
4	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 poisons	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	present	Darkness	Darkness's roots					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient

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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