Exam question 4 · Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the origin of the kiwi fruit.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, origin

This is exam question 4 of lesson 289 «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 origin	det
11	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 fruit	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fruit	det
14	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fruit	compound
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 origin	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the origin of the kiwi fruit		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus origin=Experiencer

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 originated in South America

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	2 originated	nsubj
2	originated	originate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 America	case
4	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 America	compound
5	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 originated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	originate	past	It			South America			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It originated in New Zealand and was named after the native bird by the earliest settlers

The tree, 16 words

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	2 originated	nsubj
2	originated	originate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 Zealand	case
4	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Zealand	flat
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 originated	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 named	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 named	aux:pass
8	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 originated	conj
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 bird	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
11	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bird	amod
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 named	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 settlers	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 settlers	det
15	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 settlers	amod
16	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 named	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	originate	past	It			New Zealand			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	name	past · passive	the earliest settlers				after the native bird		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It originated in China and was subsequently renamed by growers in New Zealand

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	2 originated	nsubj
2	originated	originate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 China	case
4	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 originated	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 renamed	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 renamed	aux:pass
7	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	_	8 renamed	advmod
8	renamed	rename	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 originated	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 growers	case
10	growers	grower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 renamed	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 Zealand	case
12	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Zealand	flat
13	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 renamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	originate	past	It			China			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	rename	past · passive	growers			New Zealand		subsequently property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It was first cultivated in Spain

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 cultivated	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cultivated	aux:pass
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 cultivated	advmod
4	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Spain	case
6	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cultivated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cultivate	past · passive		It		Spain		first property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

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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