Test 13 · ★ · How plants make their food

Leo reckons a big tree gets most of its weight from the soil. right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo, big tree · What happens: reckon, get · To what, where: most

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	nsubj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckons	ccomp
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 gets	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 weight	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 weight	nmod:poss
10	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 most	nmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 soil	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 soil	det
13	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weight	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
15	right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckons	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Leo						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	present	a big tree	most of tree's weight from the soil					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer most=Stimulus

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

No, most comes from the sunlight itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 comes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 sunlight	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sunlight	det
7	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	7 sunlight	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	most			the sunlight sunlight			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sunlight=Initial_Location

Option 2

Yes, the soil goes up into the trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 goes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soil	det
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 goes	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 trunk	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trunk	det
9	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	present	the soil			the trunk			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Yes, and the hole round a tree gets deeper each year it grows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gets	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gets	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gets	nsubj
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hole	nmod
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 grows	advcl
10	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 gets	xcomp
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gets	obl:unmarked
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 grows	nsubj
14	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the hole round a tree				year	deep property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	grow	present	hole						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, most comes from carbon dioxide in the air and water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 comes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 dioxide	case
6	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dioxide	compound
7	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dioxide	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 water	cc
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 air	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	most			carbon dioxide in the air and water			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dioxide=Initial_Location

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