Test 8 · ★ · How plants make their food

What does the energy of sunlight do in a leaf?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: energy, leaf

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 energy	det
4	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 sunlight	case
6	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 energy	nmod
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 leaf	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 leaf	det
10	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the energy of sunlight					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Eventuality
2	do	present				a leaf			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 right answer

It powers the making of sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 powers	nsubj
2	powers	power	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 making	det
4	making	making	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 powers	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 sugar	case
6	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	power	present	It	the making of sugar					tree rules
2	make		sugar						nom making «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

It dries the leaf out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dries	nsubj
2	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leaf	det
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dries	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	2 dries	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry out	present	It	the leaf					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient leaf=Result

Option 3

It changes the leaf into soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leaf	det
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 soil	case
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	It	the leaf				into soil result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient into soil=Result

Option 4

It turns into water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It			water			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into water=Trajectory

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