Test 10 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

why are flowers all bright n smelly

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: flowers

This is test 10 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 flowers	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 flowers	cop
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 n	det
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 n	amod
6	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smelly	obl:unmarked
7	smelly	smelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flowers	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		flowers					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

To scare away animals that eat them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADP	_	2 scare	compound:prt
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scare	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 eat	nsubj
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	acl:relcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare away	to-infinitive		animals					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer
2	eat	present	animals	animals = animal					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To bring insects that carry the pollen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 bring	mark
2	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bring	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 carry	nsubj
5	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 insects	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pollen	det
7	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	to-infinitive			insects				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument insect=Destination
2	carry	present	insects	the pollen					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme

Option 3

To keep the flower warm at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flower	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the flower			night	warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme

Option 4

To make the seeds grow faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seeds	det
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	ccomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 grow	advmod

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

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