Test 7 · ★ · Food chains and food webs

Which is true about mushrooms?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 mushrooms	case
5	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about mushrooms; true property	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

They make food from sunlight like plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 sunlight	case
5	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 plants	case
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	food		sunlight		like plants	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They feed on dead material and break it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feed	nsubj
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 material	case
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 material	amod
5	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 break	cc
7	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feed	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 break	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	7 break	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	They					on dead material	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on material=Patient
2	break down	infinitive	They not said here	material					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

They are the producers of the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 producers	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 producers	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 producers	det
4	producers	producer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 producers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	the producers				of the forest	tree rules

Option 4

They hunt insects as predators

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hunt	nsubj
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 predators	case
5	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	They	insects				as predators	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=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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