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title: A plant has a fat stem, no leaves, a waxy skin and long shallow root… — Habitats and adaptations · tree and pragmatics
description: A plant has a fat stem, no leaves, a waxy skin and long shallow roots. Where does it most likely grow? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Habitats and adaptations» 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 2 · ★★ · Habitats and adaptations

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A plant has a fat stem, no leaves, a waxy skin and long shallow roots. Where does it most likely grow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** plant · **What happens:** have, grow · **To what, where:** fat stem

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Habitats and adaptations» 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/27-habitats-and-adaptations/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A plant has a fat stem, no leaves, a waxy skin and long shallow roots.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t2:1
# text = A plant has a fat stem, no leaves, a waxy skin and long shallow roots.
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	waxy	waxy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a plant | a fat stem and no leaves and a waxy skin and long shallow roots |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=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:* Where does it most likely grow?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t2:2
# text = Where does it most likely grow?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	most	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **grow** | must · present · do-support | plant |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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In a desert

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t2:o1:1
# text = In a desert
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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In a pond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t2:o2:1
# text = In a pond
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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In the Arctic sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t2:o3:1
# text = In the Arctic sea
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sea	sea	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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On a dark forest floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t2:o4:1
# text = On a dark forest floor
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	floor	floor	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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