Test 11 · ★★ · From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread

Why might a field left bare and ploughed in a dry windy spring lose its soil?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: field · What happens: leave, plough, lose, soil · To what, where: soil

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 286 «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» 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	5 left	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 field	det
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 lose	advcl
6	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 left	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ploughed	cc
8	ploughed	plough	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 left	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 spring	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 spring	det
11	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 spring	amod
12	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 spring	amod
13	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lose	obl
14	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 soil	nmod:poss
16	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lose	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	might	a field			bare property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	plough	participle	a field not said here				vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	lose	present		field's soil	spring		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Eventuality
4	soil		field				nom soil «state transitive»: poss=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

Rain makes the soil float up and away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soil	det
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	2 makes	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 away	cc
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 up	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	present	Rain	the soil					tree rules
2	float	present	the soil not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Bare soil slowly turns into hard stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 soil	amod
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	nsubj
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 turns	advmod
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 stone	case
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stone	amod
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Bare soil			hard stone		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into stone=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wind blows the loose dry soil away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blows	nsubj
2	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soil	det
4	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soil	amod
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soil	amod
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blows	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	2 blows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	Wind	the loose dry soil				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent soil=Patient

Option 4

Worms carry it off deep underground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carry	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 carry	compound:prt
5	deep	deep	ADV	_	6 underground	advmod
6	underground	underground	ADV	_	2 carry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry off	present	Worms	it				underground property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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