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description: What would happen if you turned the bean jar upside down after the root had started? Test 3 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 right.
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# Test 3 · How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air

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What would happen if you turned the bean jar upside down after the root had started?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, root · **What happens:** happen, turn, start · **To what, where:** jar upside

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This is test 3 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:56-how-plants-grow:t3:1
# text = What would happen if you turned the bean jar upside down after the root had started?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	bean	bean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | the jar upside |  |  |  | down *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent upside=Theme |
| 3 | **start** | past · perfect | the root |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The root would bend to grow down again and the shoot up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:56-how-plants-grow:t3:o1:1
# text = The root would bend to grow down again and the shoot up
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend up** | would | the root |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow down** | to-infinitive | the root *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The root and shoot would swap places

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:56-how-plants-grow:t3:o2:1
# text = The root and shoot would swap places
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	swap	swap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swap** | would | the root and shoot | places |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The bean would stop growing for ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:56-how-plants-grow:t3:o3:1
# text = The bean would stop growing for ever
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bean	bean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | the bean |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | the bean *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The root would keep growing straight up into the air of the jar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:56-how-plants-grow:t3:o4:1
# text = The root would keep growing straight up into the air of the jar
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | would | the root |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | the root *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the air of the jar *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into air=Result |

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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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