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Test 1 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

A farmer's apple trees give almost no fruit one year when there are very few bees. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: apple trees, few bees · What happens: give, be · To what, where: fruit

This is test 1 of lesson 23 «Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel» 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 farmer's apple trees give almost no fruit one year when there are very few bees.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trees	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 farmer	case
4	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trees	compound
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	9 fruit	advmod
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 fruit	det
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 year	nummod
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl:unmarked
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 are	mark
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 are	expl
14	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 give	advcl
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 few	advmod
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bees	amod
17	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 are	nsubj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	a farmer's apple trees	no fruit			year		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
2	does	present	few bees			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Bees water the apple trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 water	compound
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
4	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trees	compound
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 water	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The flowers were not pollinated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flowers	det
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pollinated	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pollinated	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 pollinated	advmod
5	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pollinate	past · passive		the flowers					tree rules

Option 3

Bees make the leaves grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leaves	det
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Bees						tree rules
2	grow	present	the leaves						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The bees usually eat the apples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bees	det
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 apples	det
6	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the bees	the apples				usually property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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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