Test 5 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

Which comes first in the life of a flower?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: come · To what, where: life

This is test 5 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 comes	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 life	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 life	det
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 flower	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 flower	det
9	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 life	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present				the life of a flower		first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

The seed falling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 seed	det
2	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 seed	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund	the seed not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The fruit ripening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ripening	det
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ripening	compound
3	ripening	ripening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Pollination

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pollination	pollination	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The seed sprouting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sprouting	det
2	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprouting	compound
3	sprouting	sprouting	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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