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title: why are flowers all bright n smelly — Flowers, pollination and how seeds tra… · tree and pragmatics
description: why are flowers all bright n smelly Test 10 of lesson 23 «Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel» of the world 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 10 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

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why are flowers all bright n smelly

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** flowers

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This is test 10 of lesson 23 «Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel» of the world 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/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t10:1
# text = why are flowers all bright n smelly
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	n	n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	smelly	smelly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | flowers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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To scare away animals that eat them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t10:o1:1
# text = To scare away animals that eat them
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	scare	scare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scare away** | to-infinitive |  | animals |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer |
| 2 | **eat** | present | animals | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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To bring insects that carry the pollen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t10:o2:1
# text = To bring insects that carry the pollen
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | to-infinitive |  |  | insects |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument insect=Destination |
| 2 | **carry** | present | insects | the pollen |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To keep the flower warm at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t10:o3:1
# text = To keep the flower warm at night
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | the flower |  |  | night | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To make the seeds grow faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t10:o4:1
# text = To make the seeds grow faster
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | the seeds |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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