Test 3 · ★★ · Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and s…

«tomato in a fruit salad?? you're mad» Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 288 «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 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	_	2 tomato	punct
2	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 salad	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 salad	det
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 salad	compound
6	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tomato	nmod
7	??	??	SCONJ	_	10 mad	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 mad	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mad	cop
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 salad	appos
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 mad	punct
12	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 true	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mad	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tomato	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	you					mad property	tree rules
2	is	present						true property	tree rules

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

It is a root

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 root	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 root	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 root	det
4	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a root					tree rules

Option 2

It is a berry, so it is sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 berry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 berry	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 berry	det
4	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sweet	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 sweet	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sweet	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sweet	cop
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 berry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a berry					tree rules
2	is	present	berry					sweet property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A cook calls it a vegetable, a botanist calls it a fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	nsubj
3	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 calls	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 vegetable	det
6	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 calls	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 botanist	det
9	botanist	botanist	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 calls	nsubj
10	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 calls	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 calls	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fruit	det
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 calls	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	a cook	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	call	present	a botanist	cook					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 4

It is only a vegetable to everyone, cooks and scientists alike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 vegetable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 vegetable	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 vegetable	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vegetable	det
5	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 vegetable	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cooks	punct
9	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 vegetable	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 scientists	cc
11	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cooks	conj
12	alike	alike	ADV	_	9 cooks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a vegetable				to everyone	tree rules
2	cook	present	a vegetable not said here					alike property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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