Test 11 · ★ · Food chains and food webs

what's a decomposer then

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: decomposer · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 26 «Food chains and food webs» 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 decomposer	det
4	decomposer	decomposer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 what	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a decomposer				then		tree rules

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 right answer

A living thing that breaks down dead plants and animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 breaks	nsubj
5	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 breaks	compound:prt
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plants	amod
8	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 breaks	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 animals	cc
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 plants	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break down	present	a living thing	dead plants and animals					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient

Option 2

A plant that makes its own food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plant	det
2	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 plant	acl:relcl
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 food	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a plant	plant's own food					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product

Option 3

An animal that eats only plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 eats	nsubj
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 animal	acl:relcl
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 plants	advmod
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	a animal	plants					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient

Option 4

An animal that hunts down and eats other animals for its food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eats	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 hunts	nsubj
4	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 animal	acl:relcl
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 hunts	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hunts	cc
7	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eats	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 food	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 food	nmod:poss
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt down	present	a animal					down property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	present	a animal	other animals				for animal's food	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient

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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