Test 10 · ★★ · Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe

Why could Inca soldiers carry chuño on long marches?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Inca soldiers · What happens: carry · To what, where: chuño, long marches

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 289 «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» 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	5 carry	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	aux
3	Inca	Inca	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 soldiers	compound
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	nsubj
5	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	chuño	chuño	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 marches	case
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 marches	amod
9	marches	march	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 carry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	could	Inca soldiers	chuño		long marches			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuño=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

It weighs more than gold

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 weighs	nsubj
2	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 weighs	obj
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh	present	It	more					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Freeze-dried potatoes are light and last for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dried	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Freeze	punct
3	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 potatoes	amod
4	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 light	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 light	cop
6	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 last	cc
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 light	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 light	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	infinitive				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	dry	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	dried potatoes	year	light property	tree rules
4	be		dried potatoes not said here			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It must be eaten the same day it is made, so it was always fresh

The tree, 15 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	4 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 eaten	aux:pass
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obl:unmarked
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux:pass
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 day	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fresh	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 fresh	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fresh	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fresh	cop
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 fresh	advmod
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eaten	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	must · passive		It	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	make	present · passive	the same day not said here	it			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	is	past	it			always, fresh property	tree rules

Option 4

It grows on the way

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 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It			the way			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Location

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