Test 7 · ★★ · From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread

Why does a seed vault sit inside a frozen mountain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, sit, freeze · To what, where: seed vault, frozen mountain

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sit	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vault	det
4	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vault	compound
5	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 mountain	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mountain	det
9	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 mountain	amod
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	present	a seed vault		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vault=Eventuality
2	sit	present		a frozen mountain	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside mountain=Location
3	freeze	participle			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Cold keeps seeds alive for a very long time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeps	obj
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Cold	seeds			time	alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme

Option 2

Mountains make the seeds bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seeds	det
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Mountains	the seeds				big property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seed=Product

Option 3

The cold keeps birds and mice away from the seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keeps	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 mice	cc
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 birds	conj
7	away	away	ADV	_	3 keeps	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 seeds	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seeds	det
10	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the cold	birds and mice				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

Option 4

Seeds grow best in ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 grow	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 ice	case
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Seeds			ice		well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ice=Location

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