Test 12 · ★★★ · Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food

Why is it so serious to lose soil, when it is just under our feet?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, soil · What happens: be, lose · To what, where: soil, feet

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 serious	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 serious	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 serious	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 serious	advmod
5	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lose	mark
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 serious	xcomp
8	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 feet	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 feet	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 feet	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 feet	cop
13	just	just	ADV	_	16 feet	advmod
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 feet	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 feet	nmod:poss
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 serious	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 serious	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			serious property	tree rules
2	lose	to-infinitive		soil			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Eventuality
3	is	present	soil		our feet		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 · ✓ the right answer

A few centimetres take hundreds of years to form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 centimetres	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 centimetres	amod
3	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 years	case
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hundreds	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 form	mark
9	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	a few centimetres	hundreds of years					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme
2	form	to-infinitive	a few centimetres not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Soil grows back by itself every spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 grows	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 itself	case
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 grows	obl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 spring	det
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	Soil				spring	by Soil	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

Option 3

We can grow all our food on bare rock instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 food	det:predet
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 food	nmod:poss
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 rock	case
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rock	amod
9	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
10	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	can	We	our food		bare rock		instead property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Soil can be made in a factory in a single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 factory	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 factory	det
7	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 day	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can · passive		Soil		a factory	day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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