Test 6 · Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push

What would happen if a farmer planted beans in a poor field this year?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, plant · To what, where: poor field, farmer

This is test 6 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 beans	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beans	compound
7	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 farmer	acl
8	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 field	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 field	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 field	amod
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl:unmarked
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a poor field	year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in field=Location
2	plant	participle		a farmer not said here					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

The soil would turn to sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soil	det
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sand	mark
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the soil	sand					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sand=Theme

Option 2

The beans would take all the water for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beans	det
2	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 water	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	the beans	all water			year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The soil would get more nitrogen for next year's crops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soil	det
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 nitrogen	amod
6	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 crops	case
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crops	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 year	case
11	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the soil	more nitrogen				for next year's crops	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nitrogen=Theme for crop=Source

Option 4

Nothing would grow there ever again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 grow	advmod
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 again	advmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Nothing			there	again		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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