Test 11 · Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push

Why did people roast dandelion roots long ago?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: roast · To what, where: dandelion roots

This is test 11 of lesson 250 «Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push» of the biology 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 roast	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 roast	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roast	nsubj
4	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roots	compound
6	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roast	obj
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 ago	advmod
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 roast	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 roast	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	past · do-support	people	dandelion roots				ago property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent root=Patient

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

Option 1

To make a strong glue for wooden tools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 glue	det
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 glue	amod
5	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 tools	case
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tools	amod
8	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		a strong glue				for wooden tools	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent glue=Product for tool=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To make a drink like coffee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drink	det
4	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 coffee	case
6	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		a drink				like coffee	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset drink=Product

Option 3

To feed their cooking fires at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 feed	mark
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fires	nmod:poss
4	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fires	compound
5	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feed	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive		their cooking fires			night		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Recipient
2	fire		their = they						nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

To make red paint for their faces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paint	amod
4	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 faces	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 faces	nmod:poss
7	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		red paint				for their faces	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent paint=Product for face=Asset

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