Test 11 · ★ · How plants make their food

why r leaves green

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: r · What happens: leave

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 leaves	advmod
2	r	r	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaves	nsubj
3	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 leaves	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	r					green property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

The water inside them is green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 green	nsubj
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 water	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 green	cop
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the water inside them					green property	tree rules

Option 2

They are painted by the minerals in soil

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	3 painted	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 painted	aux:pass
3	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 minerals	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 minerals	det
6	minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 painted	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 soil	case
8	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present · passive	the minerals	They		soil			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in soil=Destination

Option 3

They soak up green light to grow

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 soak	nsubj
2	soak	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 soak	compound:prt
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 light	amod
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soak	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 grow	mark
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 soak	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak up	present	They	green light					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent light=Source
2	grow	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They have chlorophyll that catches light

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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	chlorophyll	chlorophyll	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 catches	nsubj
5	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chlorophyll	acl:relcl
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 catches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	They	chlorophyll					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chlorophyll=Patient
2	catch	present	chlorophyll	light					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme

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