Test 6 · ★★ · Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe

«found 3,000-year-old honey in a tomb, that must be rotten» What did archaeologists find?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: tomb, archaeologists · What happens: find, be · To what, where: old honey, tomb

This is test 6 · ★★ 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 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	3,000	3000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 year	nummod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 3,000	punct
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 old	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 year	punct
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 honey	amod
8	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 tomb	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tomb	det
11	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rotten	punct
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 rotten	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 rotten	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 rotten	cop
16	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tomb	acl:relcl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 rotten	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 find	obj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 find	aux
20	archaeologists	archaeologist	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 find	nsubj
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 rotten	ccomp
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		old honey	a tomb		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Topic
2	is in a quote	must	a tomb			rotten property	tree rules
3	find	past · do-support	archaeologists				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 had become wine

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	3 become	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	It	wine					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Honey can stay good for thousands of years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 thousands	case
6	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 years	case
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thousands	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	can	Honey					for thousands of years; good property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It was all water

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 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	It						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Old honey always turns to poison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 honey	amod
2	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 turns	advmod
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 poison	case
6	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Old honey			poison		always property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to poison=Trajectory

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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