Test 8 · ★★ · Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe
In a cartoon pirates fight over a chest of gold coins. What did real sailors also fight over long ago?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon pirates, real sailors · What happens: fight, do
This is test 8 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: In a cartoon pirates fight over a chest of gold coins.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 pirates | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pirates | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pirates | compound |
| 4 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fight | nsubj |
| 5 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 chest | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chest | det |
| 8 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fight | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 coins | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coins | compound |
| 11 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chest | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fight | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present | a cartoon pirates | over a chest of gold coins | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over chest=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.
Sentence 2: What did real sailors also fight over long ago?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sailors | amod |
| 4 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fight | nsubj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 fight | advmod |
| 6 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 ago | advmod |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 fight | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | fight | present | real sailors | ago property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Potatoes and carrots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 carrots | cc |
| 3 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Potatoes | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Tins of baked beans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tins | tin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 beans | case |
| 3 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 beans | amod |
| 4 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Tins | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Bananas from Iceland's farms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 farms | case |
| 3 | Iceland | Iceland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 farms | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Iceland | case |
| 5 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bananas | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Spices such as nutmeg and pepper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 4 nutmeg | case |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 2 such | fixed |
| 4 | nutmeg | nutmeg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spices | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pepper | cc |
| 6 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nutmeg | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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