Test 13 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

Tom says grass doesn't have flowers cos it isn't green and pretty. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom, grass · What happens: say, not have, not be, be · To what, where: flowers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	12 green	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 green	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 green	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 green	advmod
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 have	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pretty	cc
14	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 green	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	2 says	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Tom			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not have	present · do-support	grass	flowers		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
3	not is	present	grass		green property	tree rules
4	be		grass not said here			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

No, grass flowers are bright, but they're hidden down in the soil

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 bright	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bright	punct
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flowers	compound
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bright	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bright	cop
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hidden	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 hidden	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hidden	nsubj:pass
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hidden	aux:pass
11	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bright	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 hidden	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 soil	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 soil	det
15	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	grass flowers					bright property	tree rules
2	hide down	present · passive		flowers = flower		the soil			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in soil=Location

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

No, grass has small, dull flowers pollinated by the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 grass	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flowers	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 small	punct
7	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flowers	amod
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
9	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 flowers	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 wind	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pollinated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	grass	small dull flowers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
2	pollinate	participle		small dull flowers not said here				by the wind	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, grass never flowers at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 flowers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flowers	compound
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 flowers	advmod
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 flowers	nmod

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

Option 4

Yes, only bright plants have flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 plants	advmod
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plants	amod
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	bright plants	flowers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=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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