Test 9 · ★★ · From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread

«field's gone bright yellow, is it mustard for hotdogs» What is it more likely to be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: field · What happens: be · To what, where: mustard

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	_	6 yellow	punct
2	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yellow	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 yellow	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 yellow	amod
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 yellow	amod
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 likely	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mustard	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mustard	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mustard	nsubj
10	mustard	mustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yellow	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 hotdogs	case
12	hotdogs	hotdog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 mustard	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 yellow	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 likely	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 likely	cop
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 likely	nsubj
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 likely	advmod
18	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 be	mark
20	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 likely	xcomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	field		yellow property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	field	mustard	for hotdogs	tree rules
3	is	present			likely property	tree rules
4	be	to-infinitive				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Sunflowers before they open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sunflowers	sunflower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 open	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 open	nsubj
4	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sunflowers	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	present	Sunflowers = sunflower	Sunflowers not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sunflower=Theme

Option 2

Paint sprayed by the farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	sprayed	spray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Paint	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 farmer	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farmer	det
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	participle		Paint not said here				by the farmer	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by farmer=Destination

Option 3

Wheat that has gone bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 gone	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Wheat	acl:relcl
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · perfect	Wheat					bad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Rapeseed, grown for cooking oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rapeseed	rapeseed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grown	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rapeseed	punct
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 oil	case
5	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 oil	compound
6	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle						for cooking oil	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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