Test 2 · ★★ · Habitats and adaptations
A plant has a fat stem, no leaves, a waxy skin and long shallow roots. Where does it most likely grow?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: plant · What happens: have, grow · To what, where: fat stem
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Habitats and adaptations» 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: A plant has a fat stem, no leaves, a waxy skin and long shallow roots.
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 | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stem | det |
| 5 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stem | amod |
| 6 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leaves | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 leaves | det |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stem | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 skin | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 skin | det |
| 12 | waxy | waxy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 skin | amod |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stem | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 roots | cc |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 roots | amod |
| 16 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 roots | amod |
| 17 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 skin | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a plant | a fat stem and no leaves and a waxy skin and long shallow roots | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Patient |
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: Where does it most likely grow?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 grow | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grow | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | most | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 grow | aux |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 6 grow | advmod |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 grow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | must · present · do-support | plant | likely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
In a desert
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 desert | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 desert | det |
| 3 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
In a pond
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 pond | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pond | det |
| 3 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In the Arctic sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 sea | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sea | det |
| 3 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sea | compound |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
On a dark forest floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 floor | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 floor | amod |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floor | compound |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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