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Test 8 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

Pea pods dry out and suddenly twist open. What does this do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pea pods, this · What happens: dry out, twist, do

This is test 8 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: Pea pods dry out and suddenly twist open.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pods	compound
2	pods	pod	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dry	nsubj
3	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 dry	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 twist	cc
6	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	7 twist	advmod
7	twist	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dry	conj
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 twist	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry out	present	Pea pods						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	twist	infinitive	Pea pods not said here					open, suddenly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What does this do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	this						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It pollinates the next flower

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 pollinates	nsubj
2	pollinates	pollinate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flower	det
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flower	amod
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pollinates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pollinate	present	It	the next flower					tree rules

Option 2

It attracts bees to the plant

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 attracts	nsubj
2	attracts	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attracts	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 plant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plant	det
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attracts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attract	present	It	bees				to the plant result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent bee=Patient to plant=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It throws the seeds away from the plant

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 throws	nsubj
2	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seeds	det
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 throws	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 throws	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 plant	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plant	det
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 throws	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	present	It	the seeds		the plant		away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent seed=Theme from plant=Initial_Location

Option 4

It makes the seeds inside grow much faster

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seeds	det
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 makes	advmod
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 faster	advmod
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the seeds				fast, inside property	tree rules
2	grow	present	the seeds not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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