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title: «darwin fed plants?? sounds made up» What is right? — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that… · tree and pragmatics
description: «darwin fed plants?? sounds made up» What is right? Test 9 of lesson 254 «Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck» 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck

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«darwin fed plants?? sounds made up» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** feed, make up, be · **To what, where:** sounds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 of lesson 254 «Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck» 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/254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck:t9:1
# text = «darwin fed plants?? sounds made up» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	darwin	darwin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	??	??	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make up** *in a quote* | participle |  | darwin fed plants's sounds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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He fed them only bread and milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck:t9:o1:1
# text = He fed them only bread and milk
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past | He | them *= they* |  |  |  | bread and milk *obl* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It is a joke from an old cartoon about a hungry plant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck:t9:o2:1
# text = It is a joke from an old cartoon about a hungry plant
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a joke |  | a old cartoon about a hungry plant |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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It was his cat that fed them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck:t9:o3:1
# text = It was his cat that fed them
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | his cat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feed** | past | his cat | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It is true; he tested sundews with bits of meat and hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck:t9:o4:1
# text = It is true; he tested sundews with bits of meat and hair
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tested	test	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	sundews	sundew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **test** | past | he | sundews |  |  |  | with bits of meat and hair | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sundew=Theme |

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**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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