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Test 4 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

A seed has tiny hooks all over it. How does it travel?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: seed · What happens: have, travel · To what, where: tiny hooks, it

This is test 4 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 seed has tiny hooks all over it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 seed	det
2	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hooks	amod
5	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 it	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 has	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a seed	tiny hooks		it			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=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 does it travel?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 travel	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 travel	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 travel	nsubj
4	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 travel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present · do-support	seed						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

It is blown by the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blown	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 blown	aux:pass
3	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 wind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present · passive	the wind	It					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It catches on passing animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 catches	nsubj
2	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 animals	case
4	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	It					on passing animals	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	pass	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It is eaten by fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux:pass
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 fish	case
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · passive	fish	It					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It floats on water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 floats	nsubj
2	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	It			water			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory

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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