Test 5 · ★★ · From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread

«only one kind of potato, cheap and easy, what's the problem» What did Ireland in the 1840s teach?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, teach · To what, where: problem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 one	advmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 kind	nummod
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 potato	case
6	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cheap	punct
8	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kind	acl:relcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 easy	cc
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cheap	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 problem	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 problem	obj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 problem	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 problem	det
15	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 problem	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 teach	obj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 teach	aux
19	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 did	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 1840s	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 1840s	det
22	1840s	1840	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	18 did	obl
23	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 problem	parataxis
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the problem					tree rules
2	teach speech: other	past · do-support		the problem					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

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 right answer

One disease can wipe out a crop everyone depends on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 disease	nummod
2	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wipe	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wipe	aux
4	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 wipe	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crop	det
7	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wipe	obj
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 depends	nsubj
9	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 crop	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 depends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe out	can	One disease	a crop					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent crop=Source
2	depend	present	everyone	a crop not said here					tree rules

Option 2

Famines happen only with wheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Famines	famine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happen	nsubj
2	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 happen	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 wheat	case
5	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Famines					with wheat	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

One kind of potato never gets ill, so it is the safest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kind	nummod
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 potato	case
4	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 gets	advmod
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gets	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 safest	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 safest	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 safest	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 safest	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 safest	det
13	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 gets	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present	One kind of potato					ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	kind					safe property	tree rules

Option 4

Potatoes grow better without variety

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 grow	advmod
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 variety	case
5	variety	variety	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Potatoes					without variety; well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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