Test 5 · ★ · How plants make their food

Why is a sealed glass jar with a plant and a snail in a sunny place good for both of them?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: seal, be · To what, where: sealed glass jar

This is test 5 · ★ 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	6 jar	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 jar	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 jar	det
4	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 jar	amod
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jar	compound
6	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 plant	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plant	det
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jar	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 snail	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 snail	det
12	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plant	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 place	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 place	det
15	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 place	amod
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 snail	nmod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 place	amod
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 both	case
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	17 good	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 both	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 jar	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seal	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present		a sealed glass jar				with a plant and a snail in a sunny place	tree rules

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

The plant eats the snail's light

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 eats	nsubj
3	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snail	det
5	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 snail	case
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the plant	the snail's light					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient
2	light		the snail						nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The snail makes all the food that the plant needs to grow in the jar

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snail	det
2	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 food	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 food	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 needs	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plant	det
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needs	nsubj
10	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 grow	mark
12	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 needs	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 jar	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 jar	det
15	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	present	the snail	all food		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Product
2	need	present	the plant			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	grow not said to happen	to-infinitive	the plant not said here		the jar	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jar=Location

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

The plant makes oxygen and the snail makes carbon dioxide

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	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 makes	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snail	det
7	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	nsubj
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	conj
9	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dioxide	compound
10	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the plant	oxygen					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oxygen=Product
2	make	present	the snail	carbon dioxide					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dioxide=Product

Option 4

The jar makes fresh air for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jar	det
2	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 air	amod
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the jar	fresh air				for them = they	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent air=Product for they=Asset

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