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title: How would you test whether cress needs warmth to grow? — How plants grow: seeds, light, water a… · tree and pragmatics
description: How would you test whether cress needs warmth to grow? Test 11 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; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 11 · How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air

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How would you test whether cress needs warmth to grow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, cress · **What happens:** test, need, grow · **To what, where:** warmth

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This is test 11 of lesson 56 «How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air» 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/56-how-plants-grow/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:56-how-plants-grow:t11:1
# text = How would you test whether cress needs warmth to grow?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	cress	cress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | cress | warmth |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot warmth=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | cress *not said here* | warmth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Water one pot with warm water and one with nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:56-how-plants-grow:t11:o1:1
# text = Water one pot with warm water and one with nothing
1	Water	water	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **water** | imperative | you *not said here* | one pot |  |  |  | with warm water; with nothing | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pot=Destination with nothing=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Grow one pot in a cold dark cupboard and one warm on the windowsill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:56-how-plants-grow:t11:o2:1
# text = Grow one pot in a cold dark cupboard and one warm on the windowsill
1	Grow	grow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | imperative | you *not said here* | one pot |  | a cold dark cupboard |  | on the windowsill | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Grow one pot and watch it carefully every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:56-how-plants-grow:t11:o3:1
# text = Grow one pot and watch it carefully every day
1	Grow	grow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | imperative | you *not said here* | one pot |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=Theme |
| 2 | **watch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | pot |  |  | day | carefully *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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

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Grow two pots, one warm and one cold, keeping light and water the same

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:56-how-plants-grow:t11:o4:1
# text = Grow two pots, one warm and one cold, keeping light and water the same
1	Grow	grow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | imperative | you *not said here* | two pots |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | you *not said here* | light and water |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent light=Theme same=Attribute |

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