Test 2 · ★★ · Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe

«Irish stew with spuds, Irish since forever» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Irish stew · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 stew	punct
2	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stew	amod
3	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 right	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 spuds	case
5	spuds	spud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stew	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Irish	punct
7	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 right	csubj
8	since	since	ADP	_	9 forever	case
9	forever	forever	ADV	_	7 Irish	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 Irish	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Irish stew with spuds					right 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

Ireland grew potatoes 5,000 years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grew	obj
4	5,000	5000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ago	obl:unmarked
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 grew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Ireland	potatoes				ago property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location potato=Theme

Option 2

Potatoes were first farmed in Ireland and taken from there to the rest of the world

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 farmed	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 farmed	aux:pass
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 farmed	advmod
4	farmed	farm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Ireland	case
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 farmed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 taken	cc
8	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 farmed	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 there	case
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 taken	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 rest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rest	det
13	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taken	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	farm	past · passive		Potatoes		Ireland		first property	vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	take	participle				the rest of the world			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from there=Initial_Location to rest=Destination

Option 3

Potatoes came from China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 China	case
4	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Potatoes			China			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from china=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Potatoes came to Ireland from South America only after Columbus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 America	case
6	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 America	compound
7	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 Columbus	advmod
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 Columbus	case
10	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Potatoes		Ireland	South America	after Columbus		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to ireland=Initial_Location from america=Destination

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