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title: Which comes first in the life of a flower? — Flowers, pollination and how seeds tra… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which comes first in the life of a flower? Test 5 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 5 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

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Which comes first in the life of a flower?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** life

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t5:1
# text = Which comes first in the life of a flower?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present |  |  |  | the life of a flower |  | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Location |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The seed falling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t5:o1:1
# text = The seed falling
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | gerund | the seed *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The fruit ripening

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t5:o2:1
# text = The fruit ripening
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ripening	ripening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Pollination

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t5:o3:1
# text = Pollination
1	Pollination	pollination	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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The seed sprouting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t5:o4:1
# text = The seed sprouting
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sprouting	sprouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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