Test 6 · ★★ · From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread

In a cartoon a farmer pulls bread loaves straight off a wheat plant. What is real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: pull, be · To what, where: bread loaves, cartoon

This is test 6 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon a farmer pulls bread loaves straight off a wheat plant.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulls	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 farmer	det
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulls	nsubj
6	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loaves	compound
8	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pulls	obj
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	13 plant	advmod
10	off	off	ADP	_	13 plant	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 plant	det
12	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plant	compound
13	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulls	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pulls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	a farmer	bread loaves		a cartoon		off a wheat plant	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme off plant=Initial_Location

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 is real?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 real	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						real property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Wheat makes loaves after rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 rain	case
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Wheat	loaves			after rain		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material loaf=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Grain must be harvested, ground into flour, mixed with yeast and baked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 harvested	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 harvested	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 harvested	aux:pass
4	harvested	harvest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ground	punct
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 harvested	obl
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 flour	case
8	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 harvested	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mixed	punct
10	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 harvested	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 yeast	case
12	yeast	yeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mixed	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 baked	cc
14	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 harvested	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	harvest	must · passive	Grain	flour	ground obl	tree rules
2	mix	participle			with yeast	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with yeast=Co-Patient
3	bake	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Bread really grows on wheat, but only on the very tallest plants in the field

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bread	bread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 grows	advmod
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bread	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 wheat	case
5	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 plants	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 plants	cc
8	only	only	ADV	_	13 plants	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 plants	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 plants	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 tallest	advmod
12	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 plants	amod
13	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bread	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 field	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 field	det
16	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plants	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bread	imperative	you not said here			the tallest plants in the field			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	grow	present	you not said here			wheat			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wheat=Location

Option 4

Only white bread grows that way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 white	advmod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bread	amod
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	white bread	that way					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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