Test 6 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

Why do some plants grow sweet, colourful fruits?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plants · What happens: grow · To what, where: sweet colourful fruits

This is test 6 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 grow	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 plants	det
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fruits	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sweet	punct
8	colourful	colourful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fruits	amod
9	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · do-support	some plants	sweet colourful fruits					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fruit=Theme

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 fruits protect the roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fruits	det
2	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 protect	nsubj
3	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 roots	det
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present	the fruits	the roots					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Beneficiary

Option 2

The fruits make food from light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fruits	det
2	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 light	case
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the fruits	food		light			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from light=Material

Option 3

The fruits hold water for the leaves in dry weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fruits	det
2	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hold	nsubj
3	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 leaves	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 leaves	det
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hold	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 weather	case
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weather	amod
10	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	the fruits	water		dry weather		for the leaves	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in weather=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Animals eat them and spread the seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 spread	cc
5	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seeds	det
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spread	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Animals	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	spread	past	Animals not said here	the seeds					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme

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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