--- title: A plant has small green flowers with no smell and no nectar. How is… — Flowers, pollination and how seeds tra… · tree and pragmatics description: A plant has small green flowers with no smell and no nectar. How is it probably pollinated? 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How is it probably pollinated? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** plant · **What happens:** have, pollinate · **To what, where:** small green flowers, plant This is test 3 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/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A plant has small green flowers with no smell and no nectar. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t3:1 # text = A plant has small green flowers with no smell and no nectar. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a plant | small green flowers | | | | with no smell and no nectar | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | 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. *Sentence 2:* How is it probably pollinated? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t3:2 # text = How is it probably pollinated? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 probably probably ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 pollinated pollinate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pollinate** | present · passive | | plant | | | | probably *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} By butterflies ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t3:o1:1 # text = By butterflies 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} By hummingbirds ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t3:o2:1 # text = By hummingbirds 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 hummingbirds hummingbird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} By bees ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t3:o3:1 # text = By bees 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} By the wind ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t3:o4:1 # 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 _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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