Test 9 · ★★ · Habitats and adaptations

Why could a cactus not survive in a dark, wet forest well?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cactus · What happens: not survive · To what, where: dark wet forest

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 survive	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 survive	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cactus	det
4	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 survive	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 survive	advmod
6	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	12 forest	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 forest	det
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 forest	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dark	punct
11	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 forest	amod
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 survive	obl
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 survive	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 survive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not survive	could	a cactus			a dark wet forest		well property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location

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

It cannot make any seeds there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 seeds	det
6	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	can	It	any seeds		there			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material seed=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is adapted to bright light and dry soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 adapted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 adapted	aux:pass
3	adapted	adapt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 light	case
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 light	amod
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 adapted	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 soil	cc
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 soil	amod
9	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adapt	present · passive		It				to bright light and dry soil goal	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to light=Goal

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It needs to eat forest animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 needs	xcomp
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animals	compound
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive		forest animals					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient

Option 4

Rain would wash its spines off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wash	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wash	aux
3	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 spines	nmod:poss
5	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wash	obj
6	off	off	ADV	_	3 wash	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash off	would	Rain	Rain's spines				off property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spine=Patient

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