Test 2 · ★★★ · Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food

«chopped a worm with the spade, now there's two, cool» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: two cool · What happens: chop, be · To what, where: worm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 chopped	punct
2	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 worm	det
4	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chopped	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 spade	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spade	det
7	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chopped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 's	punct
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 's	advmod
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 's	expl
11	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	advcl
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 cool	nummod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 two	punct
14	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 's	nsubj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 's	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chopped	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 chopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop in a quote	past		a worm			with the spade	tree rules
2	be in a quote	present	two cool		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present					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

Worms grow back from any piece, even a tiny one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	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	from	from	ADP	_	6 piece	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 piece	det
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 one	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piece	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	Worms					from any piece	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from piece=Patient

Option 2

Yes, both halves just grow into two worms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 halves	det
4	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 grow	advmod
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 worms	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 worms	nummod
9	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	both halves					into two worms result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into worm=Result

Option 3

It turns into a snake

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 snake	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snake	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It					into a snake result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into snake=Result

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

Usually it dies; the tail end cannot grow a new head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Usually	usually	ADV	_	3 dies	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dies	nsubj
3	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 grow	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 end	det
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	compound
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grow	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 grow	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 grow	advmod
10	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dies	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 head	det
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 head	amod
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	it					usually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	not grow	can	the tail end	a new head					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme

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