Test 11 · ★ · Insects as food in other countries

Why would mopane worms be a good food to keep for a dry season?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mopane worms · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: good food

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 290 «Insects as food in other countries» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 food	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 food	aux
3	mopane	mopane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worms	compound
4	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 food	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 food	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 food	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 food	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 food	acl
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 season	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 season	det
13	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 season	amod
14	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 food	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	mopane worms	a good food					tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive					season		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

They must be eaten fresh the same day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 eaten	aux:pass
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eaten	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	must · passive		They			day	fresh property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Dried, they last for months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 last	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dried	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 last	nsubj
4	last	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 months	case
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 last	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle	they not said here						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	last	present	they				month		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They turn into butterflies in the jar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 butterflies	case
4	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 jar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jar	det
7	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	They			the jar		into butterflies	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into butterfly=Source in jar=Trajectory

Option 4

They grow back again every single night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	They				again; night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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