--- title: «pulled 6 dandelions, no wait 8, and 3 roots snapped. how many might… — Plants deeper: roots and how they drin… · tree and pragmatics description: «pulled 6 dandelions, no wait 8, and 3 roots snapped. how many might grow back» Test 5 of lesson 250 «Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Plants deeper: roots and how they drin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push/) / t5 # Test 5 · Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push «pulled 6 dandelions, no wait 8, and 3 roots snapped. how many might grow back» **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** 3 roots, many · **What happens:** pull, snap, grow back · **To what, where:** 6 dandelions This is test 5 of lesson 250 «Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push:t5:1 # text = «pulled 6 dandelions, no wait 8, and 3 roots snapped. how many might grow back» 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 dandelions dandelion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 wait wait NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 8 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 snapped snap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 15 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 nsubj _ _ 17 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** *in a quote* | past | | 6 dandelions | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dandelion=Theme | | 2 | **snap** *in a quote* | past | 3 roots | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow back** *in a quote* | might | many | | | | | | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 11 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push:t5:o1:1 # text = 11 1 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push:t5:o2:1 # text = 5 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 8 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push:t5:o3:1 # text = 8 1 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push:t5:o4:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 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. 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