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title: How could you test which helicopter seeds fall slowest? — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics
description: How could you test which helicopter seeds fall slowest? Test 3 of lesson 59 «Seeds and fruit and how they travel» 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 · Seeds and fruit and how they travel

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How could you test which helicopter seeds fall slowest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, helicopter seeds · **What happens:** test, fall · **To what, where:** slowest

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This is test 3 of lesson 59 «Seeds and fruit and how they travel» 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/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel:t3:1
# text = How could you test which helicopter seeds fall slowest?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	could	could	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	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	helicopter	helicopter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	slowest	slow	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | could | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | present | helicopter seeds | slowest |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient which=Result |

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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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Drop them from the same height and time each, one change at a time

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel:t3:o1:1
# text = Drop them from the same height and time each, one change at a time
1	Drop	drop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  | the same height and time  each and one change | time |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme from height=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Throw them as hard as you can

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel:t3:o2:1
# text = Throw them as hard as you can
1	Throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Count how many are on the ground under the tree after a windy night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel:t3:o3:1
# text = Count how many are on the ground under the tree after a windy night
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	windy	windy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | night | under the tree; on the ground | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on ground=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Paint them and see which looks fastest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel:t3:o4:1
# text = Paint them and see which looks fastest
1	Paint	paint	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **look** | present |  | fastest |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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