Test 9 · ★★ · Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe

«kiwi fruit, from New Zealand, named after the bird, so it's Kiwi from day one» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: fruit, kiwi fruit · What happens: name, be · To what, where: kiwi fruit, Kiwi

This is test 9 · ★★ 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 fruit	punct
2	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fruit	compound
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 right	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Zealand	punct
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 Zealand	case
6	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Zealand	flat
7	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fruit	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 named	punct
9	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fruit	acl
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 bird	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 named	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Kiwi	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 Kiwi	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 Kiwi	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Kiwi	cop
17	Kiwi	Kiwi	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 right	nsubj
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 day	case
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Kiwi	nmod
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 day	flat
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 Kiwi	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 right	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 right	cop
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	name in a quote	participle		kiwi fruit not said here	after the bird		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	fruit	Kiwi	day		tree rules
3	is	present	kiwi fruit			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

It was born in New Zealand

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 born	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 Zealand	case
5	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Zealand	flat
6	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		It		New Zealand			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

It came from Brazil

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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Brazil	case
4	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

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

Option 3

It is a kind of bird egg

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 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 egg	case
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 egg	compound
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a kind				of bird egg	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It came from China and was renamed in New Zealand

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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 China	case
4	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 renamed	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 renamed	aux:pass
7	renamed	rename	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Zealand	case
9	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Zealand	flat
10	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 renamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	It			China			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from china=Initial_Location
2	rename	past · passive				New Zealand			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»

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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