Test 8 · ★★ · From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread

«we had rice for dinner, my mate had pasta, his gran had tortillas. who ate a big grain»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, mate, gran · What happens: have, eat · To what, where: rice, pasta, tortillas, big grain

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	_	3 had	punct
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 dinner	case
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rice	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mate	nmod:poss
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
11	pasta	pasta	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 gran	nmod:poss
14	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	conj
16	tortillas	tortilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 ate	nsubj
19	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 grain	det
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grain	amod
22	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ate	obj
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	we	rice	for dinner	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient
2	have in a quote	past	my mate	pasta		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasta=Patient
3	have in a quote	past	mate's gran	tortillas		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortilla=Patient
4	eat in a quote	past		a big grain		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=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

None of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 None	nmod

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

Option 2

Only the rice eater

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 eater	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eater	det
3	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eater	compound
4	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Only the pasta eater

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 eater	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eater	det
3	pasta	pasta	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eater	compound
4	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

All three: rice, wheat and maize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 rice	punct
4	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 three	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wheat	punct
6	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rice	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 maize	cc
8	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rice	conj

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

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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