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title: What happens inside a flower after pollen reaches the pistil? — Flowers, pollination and how seeds tra… · tree and pragmatics
description: What happens inside a flower after pollen reaches the pistil? Test 9 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 9 · Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel

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What happens inside a flower after pollen reaches the pistil?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** pollen · **What happens:** happen, reach · **To what, where:** flower, pistil

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t9:1
# text = What happens inside a flower after pollen reaches the pistil?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pistil	pistil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present |  |  |  | a flower |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inside flower=Location |
| 2 | **reach** | present | pollen | the pistil |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pistil=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 {#o1}

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The pollen becomes nectar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t9:o1:1
# text = The pollen becomes nectar
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | the pollen | nectar |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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

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The ovules can become seeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t9:o2:1
# text = The ovules can become seeds
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ovules	ovule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | can | the ovules | seeds |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The petals turn into leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t9:o3:1
# text = The petals turn into leaves
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	petals	petal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | the petals |  |  | leaves |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into leaf=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The stamens turn into roots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:23-flowers-and-seeds:t9:o4:1
# text = The stamens turn into roots
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stamens	stamen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | the stamens |  |  | roots |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into root=Trajectory |

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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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