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title: plant looks sad, water it every day loads? — Chores and broken things · tree and pragmatics
description: plant looks sad, water it every day loads? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 111 «Chores and broken things» of the everyday 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 13 · ★ · Chores and broken things

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plant looks sad, water it every day loads?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** plant · **What happens:** look · **To what, where:** sad water

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 111 «Chores and broken things» of the everyday 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/everyday/111-chores-and-broken-things/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things:t13:1
# text = plant looks sad, water it every day loads?
1	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | plant | sad water |  |  |  | water *obl* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Attribute |

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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 {#o1}

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Only ever water the leaves, not the soil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things:t13:o1:1
# text = Only ever water the leaves, not the soil
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, lots of water every single day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things:t13:o2:1
# text = Yes, lots of water every single day
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Water it when the soil feels dry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things:t13:o3:1
# text = Water it when the soil feels dry
1	Water	water	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **water** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
| 2 | **feel** | present | the soil |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Never water it, plants find their own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things:t13:o4:1
# text = Never water it, plants find their own
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | water | plants's own |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Topic |

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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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