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Test 11 · The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines

In the 1630s a man paid as much as a house for one tulip bulb. What made his tulip special?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: man · What happens: pay, make · To what, where: much, 1630s, tulip

This is test 11 of lesson 258 «The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines» 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

Sentence 1: In the 1630s a man paid as much as a house for one tulip bulb.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 1630s	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 1630s	det
3	1630s	1630	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	6 paid	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paid	nsubj
6	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 paid	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 much	nmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 bulb	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 bulb	nummod
14	tulip	tulip	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bulb	compound
15	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paid	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 paid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	a man	much		the 1630s		as a house; for one tulip bulb	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent much=Asset for bulb=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: What made his tulip special?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tulip	nmod:poss
4	tulip	tulip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		man's tulip				special property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material tulip=Product

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stripy petals caused by a virus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stripy	stripy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 petals	amod
2	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 petals	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 virus	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 virus	det
6	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	participle		Stripy petals not said here				by a virus	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition

Option 2

It was made of real gold all the way through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 gold	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gold	amod
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 way	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl:unmarked
10	through	through	ADV	_	9 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		It				of real gold; all way obl:unmarked	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

It was the only tulip in the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tulip	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tulip	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tulip	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tulip	amod
5	tulip	tulip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tulip	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the only tulip		the world			tree rules

Option 4

It could flower all year round, even in snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flower	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 flower	aux
3	flower	flower	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flower	obj
6	round	round	ADV	_	3 flower	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 snow	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	10 snow	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 snow	case
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flower	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flower	could	It				year	round property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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