Exam question 4 · From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread

Ascertain the purpose of the seed vault situated upon Svalbard.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, seed vault · What happens: ascertain, situate, purpose · To what, where: purpose, seed vault

This is exam question 4 of lesson 286 «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 vault	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vault	det
6	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vault	compound
7	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 purpose	nmod
8	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 vault	acl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Svalbard	case
10	Svalbard	Svalbard	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 situated	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the purpose of the seed vault		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic
2	situate	participle		the seed vault not said here	upon Svalbard	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon svalbard=Destination
3	purpose		the seed vault			nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=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 commercial sale of seeds to gardeners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sale	det
2	commercial	commercial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sale	amod
3	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 seeds	case
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sale	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 gardeners	case
7	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sale	nmod

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

Option 2

The storage of flour for the population of Norway in time of war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 storage	det
2	storage	storage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 flour	case
4	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 storage	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 population	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 population	det
7	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 storage	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Norway	case
9	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 population	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 time	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 storage	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 war	case
13	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store			flour			in time of war	for the population of Norway	nom storage «act transitive»: of=patient for=obl in=obl

Option 3

The cultivation of wheat beneath the ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cultivation	det
2	cultivation	cultivation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wheat	case
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cultivation	nmod
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	7 ice	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ice	det
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cultivation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cultivate			wheat				beneath the ice	nom cultivation «act transitive»: of=patient beneath=obl

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The preservation of crop seeds as a safeguard against war and disaster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 preservation	det
2	preservation	preservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 seeds	case
4	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seeds	compound
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 preservation	nmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 safeguard	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 safeguard	det
8	safeguard	safeguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 preservation	nmod
9	against	against	ADP	_	10 war	case
10	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 safeguard	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 disaster	cc
12	disaster	disaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 safeguard	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	preserve			crop seeds				as a safeguard against war and disaster	nom preservation «act transitive»: of=patient as=obl

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