Test 13 · ★ · Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things

my cousin reckons mushrooms are plants cos they grow in the ground. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, mushrooms · What happens: reckon, be, grow · To what, where: plants, ground

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 77 «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plants	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plants	cop
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reckons	obj
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 grow	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grow	nsubj
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
14	right	right	ADV	_	3 reckons	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	my cousin			right property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	mushrooms	plants			tree rules
3	grow	present	mushrooms = mushroom		the ground		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=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

Yes, mushrooms are plants without leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 plants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plants	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plants	cop
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 leaves	case
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plants	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	mushrooms	plants				without leaves	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they make food from sunlight like plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 sunlight	case
7	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 plants	case
9	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 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 3

No, mushrooms are tiny animals living in soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 animals	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 animals	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 animals	cop
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 animals	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 soil	case
9	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	mushrooms	tiny animals					tree rules
2	live	gerund	tiny animals not said here			soil			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, mushrooms are fungi and cannot make their own food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 mushrooms	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fungi	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fungi	cop
5	fungi	fungus	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 make	cc
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 make	advmod
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fungi	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 food	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 food	amod
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	mushrooms	fungi					tree rules
2	not make	can	mushrooms not said here	mushrooms's own food					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product

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