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Test 4 · Life cycles

Beans are put on wet cotton in a dark cupboard and also sprout. What does this show?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: this · What happens: put, sprout, show · To what, where: Beans, wet cotton

This is test 4 of lesson 25 «Life cycles» 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: Beans are put on wet cotton in a dark cupboard and also sprout.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 put	aux:pass
3	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 cotton	case
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cotton	amod
6	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 cupboard	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cupboard	det
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cupboard	amod
10	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sprout	cc
12	also	also	ADV	_	13 sprout	advmod
13	sprout	sprout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 put	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present · passive		Beans		wet cotton		in a dark cupboard	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on cotton=Destination
2	sprout	infinitive							vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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 show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	this						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1

Cotton feeds the seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feeds	nsubj
2	feeds	feed	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 feeds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	Cotton	the seeds					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent seed=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Beans need no water at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 need	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Beans	no water		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Germination does not need light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germination	germination	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	Germination	light					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme

Option 4

Seeds need darkness to live

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 live	mark
5	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Seeds	darkness					tree rules
2	live not said to happen	to-infinitive	darkness not said here						vn exist-47.1-1 «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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