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Test 3 · ★★★ · Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence

Ana tests a new plant food on one plant, which grows well. What would make her result more convincing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ana, one plant · What happens: test, grow, make, result · To what, where: new plant food, one plant, Ana

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 91 «Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence» 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: Ana tests a new plant food on one plant, which grows well.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ana	Ana	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tests	nsubj
2	tests	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 food	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 food	compound
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tests	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 plant	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 plant	nummod
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tests	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grows	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 grows	nsubj
12	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 plant	acl:relcl
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 grows	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tests	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	present	Ana	a new plant food		one plant			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	grow	present	one plant					well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: What would make her result more convincing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 make	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	result	result	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 convincing	advmod
7	convincing	convincing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 result	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would		Ana					tree rules
2	result	infinitive	Ana not said here					convincing property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Giving the plant twice as much food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 plant	det
3	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obj
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 much	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		the plant					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent plant=Recipient food=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Testing many plants, with some getting no plant food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Testing	test	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 getting	csubj
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plants	amod
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Testing	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 getting	punct
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	7 getting	mark
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 getting	nsubj
7	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 food	det
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 food	compound
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 getting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	gerund		many plants					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme
2	get	gerund	some	no plant food					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus

Option 3

Telling everyone that it works

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 works	csubj
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Telling	iobj
3	that	that	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Telling	obl
5	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			everyone			that it	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	work	present	Telling						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Testing the same single plant again every month next year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Testing	test	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plant	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plant	amod
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plant	amod
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Testing	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	1 Testing	advmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 month	det
8	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Testing	obl:unmarked
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 year	amod
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Testing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	gerund		the same single plant			again; month; year		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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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