Test 5 · ★★ · Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe

«snails?? frog legs?? gross, French people are weird» What is a fairer view?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snails · What happens: be · To what, where: fairer view · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	_	2 snails	punct
2	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 weird	nsubj
3	??	??	PUNCT	_	2 snails	punct
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 legs	compound
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 snails	conj
6	??	??	PUNCT	_	7 gross	punct
7	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gross	punct
9	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 snails	conj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 weird	cop
12	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 weird	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 view	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 view	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 view	det
17	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 view	amod
18	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 weird	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 weird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	snails and frog legs and gross French people					weird property	tree rules
2	is a	present		a fairer view					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

Snails cannot be eaten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eaten	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 eaten	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 eaten	aux:pass
5	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	can · passive		Snails					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Food is cultural, and others may find our food odd too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cultural	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cultural	cop
3	cultural	cultural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 find	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 find	cc
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 find	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cultural	conj
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 food	nmod:poss
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj
11	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 find	xcomp
12	too	too	ADV	_	8 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Food					cultural property	tree rules
2	find	may	others	our food				odd property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 3

Only one country in the world eats properly, and that is ours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 country	nummod
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eats	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 country	nmod
7	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	properly	properly	ADV	_	7 eats	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ours	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ours	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 ours	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ours	cop
13	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	one country in the world					properly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	that	ours					tree rules

Option 4

French food is just wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 food	amod
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrong	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wrong	advmod
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	French food					wrong property	tree rules

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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