Test 9 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

What happens inside a flower after pollen reaches the pistil?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: pollen · What happens: happen, reach · To what, where: flower, pistil

This is test 9 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	5 flower	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flower	det
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	obl
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 reaches	mark
7	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reaches	nsubj
8	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 happens	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pistil	det
10	pistil	pistil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reaches	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present				a flower			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inside flower=Location
2	reach	present	pollen	the pistil					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pistil=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

The pollen becomes nectar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pollen	det
2	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	nsubj
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	the pollen	nectar					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The ovules can become seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ovules	det
2	ovules	ovule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	can	the ovules	seeds					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The petals turn into leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 petals	det
2	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	nsubj
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 leaves	case
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the petals			leaves			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into leaf=Trajectory

Option 4

The stamens turn into roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stamens	det
2	stamens	stamen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	nsubj
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 roots	case
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the stamens			roots			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into root=Trajectory

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