--- title: Count them: a bamboo shoot grows about 90 centimetres a day. About h… — China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus,… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: a bamboo shoot grows about 90 centimetres a day. About how much in 2 days? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 380 «China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/t3/) [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/) / [China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies Count them: a bamboo shoot grows about 90 centimetres a day. About how much in 2 days? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, bamboo shoot · **What happens:** count, grow · **To what, where:** them, 90 centimetres This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 380 «China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies» 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/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: a bamboo shoot grows about 90 centimetres a day. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies:t3:1 # text = Count them: a bamboo shoot grows about 90 centimetres a day. 1 Count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 shoot shoot NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | present | a bamboo shoot | 90 centimetres | | | day | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location centimetre=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:* About how much in 2 days? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies:t3:2 # text = About how much in 2 days? 1 About about ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} 180 centimetres ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies:t3:o1:1 # text = 180 centimetres 1 180 180 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 90 centimetres ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies:t3:o2:1 # text = 90 centimetres 1 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 45 centimetres ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies:t3:o3:1 # text = 45 centimetres 1 45 45 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 900 centimetres ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies:t3:o4:1 # text = 900 centimetres 1 900 900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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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