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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence

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Ana tests a new plant food on one plant, which grows well. What would make her result more convincing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ana, one plant · **What happens:** test, grow, make, result · **To what, where:** new plant food, one plant, Ana

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 91 «Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence» 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/91-being-a-scientist/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ana tests a new plant food on one plant, which grows well.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:91-being-a-scientist:t3:1
# text = Ana tests a new plant food on one plant, which grows well.
1	Ana	Ana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tests	test	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | present | Ana | a new plant food |  | one plant |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | present | one plant |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What would make her result more convincing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:91-being-a-scientist:t3:2
# text = What would make her result more convincing?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	result	result	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	convincing	convincing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would |  | Ana |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **result** | infinitive | Ana *not said here* |  |  |  |  | convincing *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Giving the plant twice as much food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:91-being-a-scientist:t3:o1:1
# text = Giving the plant twice as much food
1	Giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund |  | the plant |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent plant=Recipient food=Theme |

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

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Testing many plants, with some getting no plant food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:91-being-a-scientist:t3:o2:1
# text = Testing many plants, with some getting no plant food
1	Testing	test	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
7	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
9	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | gerund |  | many plants |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | some | no plant food |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Telling everyone that it works

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:91-being-a-scientist:t3:o3:1
# text = Telling everyone that it works
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	iobj	_	_
3	that	that	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | everyone |  |  | that it | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient |
| 2 | **work** | present | Telling |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Testing the same single plant again every month next year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:91-being-a-scientist:t3:o4:1
# text = Testing the same single plant again every month next year
1	Testing	test	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | gerund |  | the same single plant |  |  | again; month; year |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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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