Test 3 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel
A plant has small green flowers with no smell and no nectar. How is it probably pollinated?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: plant · What happens: have, pollinate · To what, where: small green flowers, plant
This is test 3 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 plant has small green flowers with no smell and no nectar.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 plant | det |
| 2 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flowers | amod |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flowers | amod |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 smell | case |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 smell | det |
| 9 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flowers | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 nectar | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 nectar | det |
| 12 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smell | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a plant | small green flowers | with no smell and no nectar | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |
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: How is it probably pollinated?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 pollinated | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pollinated | aux:pass |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pollinated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 pollinated | advmod |
| 5 | pollinated | pollinate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 pollinated | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pollinate | present · passive | plant | probably property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
By butterflies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 butterflies | case |
| 2 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
By hummingbirds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 hummingbirds | case |
| 2 | hummingbirds | hummingbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
By bees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 bees | case |
| 2 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
By the wind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 wind | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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