--- title: Identify the process by which green plants manufacture sugar from li… — How plants grow: seeds, light, water a… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the process by which green plants manufacture sugar from light, water and carbon dioxide. Exam question 1 of lesson 56 «How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/56-how-plants-grow/e1/) [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/) / [How plants grow: seeds, light, water a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/56-how-plants-grow/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air Identify the process by which green plants manufacture sugar from light, water and carbon dioxide. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, green plants · **What happens:** identify, manufacture · **To what, where:** process, sugar, light This is exam question 1 of lesson 56 «How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/56-how-plants-grow/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:56-how-plants-grow:e1:1 # text = Identify the process by which green plants manufacture sugar from light, water and carbon dioxide. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 process process NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 obl _ _ 6 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 manufacture manufacture VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the process | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent process=Theme | | 2 | **manufacture** | present | green plants | sugar | | light and water and carbon dioxide | | by the process | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent sugar=Result from light=Material | 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} Pollination of the flower ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:56-how-plants-grow:e1:o1:1 # text = Pollination of the flower 1 Pollination pollination NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pollinate** | | | the flower | | | | | nom pollination «event transitive»: of=patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} Germination of the seed ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:56-how-plants-grow:e1:o2:1 # text = Germination of the seed 1 Germination germination NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **germinate** | | | the seed | | | | | nom germination «process transitive»: of=patient | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Photosynthesis ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:56-how-plants-grow:e1:o3:1 # text = Photosynthesis 1 Photosynthesis photosynthesis NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Respiration of the leaf ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:56-how-plants-grow:e1:o4:1 # text = Respiration of the leaf 1 Respiration respiration NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **respire** | | the leaf | | | | | | nom respiration «act intransitive»: of=agent | **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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