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title: A seed has a light, fluffy tuft. How is it most likely spread? — Flowers, pollination and how seeds tra… · tree and pragmatics
description: A seed has a light, fluffy tuft. How is it most likely spread? Test 2 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 wrong.
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# Test 2 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

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A seed has a light, fluffy tuft. How is it most likely spread?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** seed · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** light, seed

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A seed has a light, fluffy tuft.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t2:1
# text = A seed has a light, fluffy tuft.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tuft	tuft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a seed | a light and fluffy tuft |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient |

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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:* How is it most likely spread?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t2:2
# text = How is it most likely spread?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · passive |  | seed |  |  |  | likely, spread *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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By hooking onto fur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t2:o1:1
# text = By hooking onto fur
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hooking	hook	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hook** | gerund |  |  |  | fur |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto fur=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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By floating on the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t2:o2:1
# text = By floating on the sea
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	floating	float	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sea=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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By the wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t2:o3:1
# text = By the wind
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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By bursting out of a pod

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t2:o4:1
# text = By bursting out of a pod
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pod	pod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst out** | gerund |  | a pod |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pod=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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