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Test 2 · ★ · How plants make their food

A boy says a plant gets its food from the soil, like we get food from a plate. Which is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, plant, we · What happens: say, get, be · To what, where: food, soil, plate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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 boy says a plant gets its food from the soil, like we get food from a plate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plant	det
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	nsubj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 food	nmod:poss
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 soil	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soil	det
11	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 get	punct
13	like	like	SCONJ	_	15 get	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
15	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gets	conj
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 plate	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 plate	det
19	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a boy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	present	a plant	plant's food		the soil			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from soil=Source
3	get	present	we	food		a plate			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from plate=Source

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: Which is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Plants get their food only from rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 food	nmod:poss
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 rain	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 rain	case
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Plants	Plants's food		rain			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from rain=Source

Option 2

Plants get their food from the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 food	nmod:poss
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 wind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Plants	Plants's food		the wind			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from wind=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The plant makes its own food from light, air and water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plant	det
2	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 food	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 light	case
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 air	punct
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 light	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 water	cc
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 light	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the plant	plant's own food		light and air and water			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from light=Material

Option 4

The boy is right: plants eat food from the soil with their roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 right	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	parataxis
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 soil	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soil	det
11	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 roots	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 roots	nmod:poss
14	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the boy					right property	tree rules
2	eat	present	plants	food		the soil		with plants's roots	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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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