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title: Why do some plants grow sweet, colourful fruits? — Flowers, pollination and how seeds tra… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do some plants grow sweet, colourful fruits? Test 6 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 6 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

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Why do some plants grow sweet, colourful fruits?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** plants · **What happens:** grow · **To what, where:** sweet colourful fruits

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t6:1
# text = Why do some plants grow sweet, colourful fruits?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	colourful	colourful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present · do-support | some plants | sweet colourful fruits |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fruit=Theme |

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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 fruits protect the roots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t6:o1:1
# text = The fruits protect the roots
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	protect	protect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | present | the fruits | the roots |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The fruits make food from light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t6:o2:1
# text = The fruits make food from light
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the fruits | food |  | light |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from light=Material |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The fruits hold water for the leaves in dry weather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t6:o3:1
# text = The fruits hold water for the leaves in dry weather
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | the fruits | water |  | dry weather |  | for the leaves | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in weather=Location |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Animals eat them and spread the seeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t6:o4:1
# text = Animals eat them and spread the seeds
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Animals | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **spread** | past | Animals *not said here* | the seeds |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=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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