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title: Jake reckons sunflowers turn to the Sun all their lives, even when o… — Carnivorous and strange plants · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake reckons sunflowers turn to the Sun all their lives, even when old. Right? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 61 «Carnivorous and strange plants» 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 6 · ★ · Carnivorous and strange plants

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Jake reckons sunflowers turn to the Sun all their lives, even when old. Right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jake, sunflowers · **What happens:** reckon, turn · **To what, where:** lives

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 61 «Carnivorous and strange plants» 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/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jake reckons sunflowers turn to the Sun all their lives, even when old.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants:t6:1
# text = Jake reckons sunflowers turn to the Sun all their lives, even when old.
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sunflowers	sunflower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | Jake |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | infinitive | sunflowers | sunflowers's lives |  |  |  | to the Sun *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent life=Theme to sun=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants:t6:2
# text = Right?
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, only young ones do; grown flower heads stop and mostly face east

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants:t6:o1:1
# text = No, only young ones do; grown flower heads stop and mostly face east
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
9	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	face	face	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	east	east	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | young ones |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | present | grown flower heads |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **face** | present | grown flower heads *not said here* |  |  |  |  | east, mostly *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, they never move at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants:t6:o2:1
# text = No, they never move at all
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **move** | present | they |  |  | all |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, they turn away from the Sun to keep cool, all their lives, young or old

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants:t6:o3:1
# text = No, they turn away from the Sun to keep cool, all their lives, young or old
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn away** | present | they | their lives |  | the Sun |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent life=Theme from sun=Source |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Yes, they turn every day until they die

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants:t6:o4:1
# text = Yes, they turn every day until they die
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | they |  |  |  | day |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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