Test 11 · ★★★ · Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food

What would happen if a farmer left a huge ploughed field bare through a hot windy drought?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: farmer, huge ploughed field · What happens: happen, leave, plough, bare · To what, where: huge ploughed field, hot windy drought

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 291 «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 left	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 field	det
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 field	amod
10	ploughed	plough	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 field	amod
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obj
12	bare	bare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 field	acl:relcl
13	through	through	ADP	_	17 drought	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 drought	det
15	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 drought	amod
16	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 drought	amod
17	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave a condition, not said to happen	past	a farmer	a huge ploughed field	a hot windy drought	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent field=Theme through drought=Location
3	plough	participle				vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	bare	present	a huge ploughed field not said here			vn crane-40.3.2 «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

The soil would grow a crop alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soil	det
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crop	det
6	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the soil	a crop				alone property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crop=Theme

Option 2

The wind would make the soil richer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soil	det
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the wind	the soil				rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soil=Product

Option 3

Worms would cover it in a night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cover	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cover	aux
3	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cover	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 night	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cover	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	would	Worms	it			night		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination

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

The dry soil could blow away like in the Dust Bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soil	det
2	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soil	amod
3	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blow	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 blow	aux
5	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 blow	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 Bowl	case
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 Bowl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Bowl	det
10	Dust	Dust	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Bowl	compound
11	Bowl	Bowl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 blow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow away	could	the dry soil					like the Dust Bowl; away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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