Test 7 · ★ · Insects as food in other countries

«lobster's always been posh food» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lobster, posh food · What happens: be · To what, where: posh food

This is test 7 · ★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 food	punct
2	lobster	lobster	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 lobster	case
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 food	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 food	cop
6	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 food	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 food	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	participle	lobster	posh food				always property	tree rules
2	is	present	posh food					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

In America it was once cheap food for the poor and prisoners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 America	case
2	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 food	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 food	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 food	cop
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 cheap	advmod
6	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 poor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 poor	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 prisoners	cc
12	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	cheap food and prisoners		America		for the poor	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, only kings and queens ever ate it, from the very start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kings	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 kings	advmod
4	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ate	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 queens	cc
6	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kings	conj
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 ate	advmod
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ate	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 start	punct
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 start	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 start	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 start	advmod
14	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	kings and queens	it			ever		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Lobster is a kind of insect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lobster	lobster	NOUN	Number=Sing	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	_	6 insect	case
6	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

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

Option 4

Lobster was never eaten before cars were invented

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lobster	lobster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 eaten	advmod
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 invented	mark
6	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 invented	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 invented	aux:pass
8	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 eaten	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	past · passive		Lobster					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	invent	past · passive		cars					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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