Test 11 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

how do dandelion seeds get about

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dandelion seeds · What happens: get about

This is test 11 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeds	compound
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get about	present · do-support	dandelion seeds					about property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

They are shot out of a pod

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shot	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shot	aux:pass
3	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 pod	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 pod	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pod	det
7	pod	pod	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	present · passive		They		a pod			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme out pod=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The wind carries them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carries	nsubj
3	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carries	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	the wind	them = they					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

They float down rivers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 float	nsubj
2	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 float	compound:prt
4	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 float	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float down	present	They	rivers					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They stick to animals' fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stick	nsubj
2	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 fur	case
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fur	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 animals	case
6	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present	They					to animals's fur	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to fur=Co-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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