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Test 3 · ★ · How plants make their food

A scientist grew a willow tree in a pot for five years: the tree gained many kilograms, the soil lost very little. Where did the mass come from?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: scientist, tree, soil, mass · What happens: grow, gain, lose, come · To what, where: willow tree, pot, many kilograms, little

This is test 3 · ★ 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 scientist grew a willow tree in a pot for five years: the tree gained many kilograms, the soil lost very little.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 scientist	det
2	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pot	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pot	det
9	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 gained	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gained	nsubj
16	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	parataxis
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kilograms	amod
18	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gained	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lost	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 soil	det
21	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lost	nsubj
22	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gained	conj
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 little	advmod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lost	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	a scientist	a willow tree		a pot	year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme
2	gain	past	the tree	many kilograms					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=Theme
3	lose	past	the soil	little					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Eventuality

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: Where did the mass come from?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 come	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mass	det
4	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	5 come	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · do-support	the mass						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Mostly from the pot itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 pot	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 pot	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pot	det
4	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	4 pot	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Mostly from the sunlight's weight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	_	6 weight	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	6 weight	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sunlight	det
4	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weight	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 sunlight	case
6	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Mostly from the soil in the pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 soil	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 soil	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soil	det
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pot	det
7	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soil	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

Mostly from air and water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	_	3 air	advmod
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 air	case
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 water	cc
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 air	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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