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Test 7 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

A big seed has a hard, waterproof shell and air inside, and the plant grows on beaches. How does it travel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big seed, plant · What happens: have, grow, travel · To what, where: hard waterproof shell, beaches

This is test 7 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 big seed has a hard, waterproof shell and air inside, and the plant grows on beaches.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 seed	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seed	amod
3	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shell	det
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shell	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hard	punct
8	waterproof	waterproof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shell	amod
9	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 air	cc
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shell	conj
12	inside	inside	ADV	_	11 air	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grows	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grows	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 plant	det
16	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grows	nsubj
17	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 beaches	case
19	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grows	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a big seed	a hard waterproof shell and air					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient
2	grow	present	the plant			beaches			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=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.

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	plant						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It hooks onto birds

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 hooks	nsubj
2	hooks	hook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	onto	onto	ADP	_	4 birds	case
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hooks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hook	present	It					onto birds	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto bird=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It floats on the sea

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	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floats	obl

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

Option 3

It is shot from a pod

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 shot	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shot	aux:pass
3	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 pod	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pod	det
6	pod	pod	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	present · passive		It		a pod			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from pod=Initial_Location

Option 4

It flies on 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	2 flies	nsubj
2	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 wind	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	It			the wind			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wind=Location

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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