Test 8 · ★★★ · Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food

«compost heap's steaming, is it on fire» What is happening?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: heap steaming, fire · What happens: be, happen · To what, where: fire

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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	_	5 steaming	punct
2	compost	compost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heap	compound
3	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 steaming	compound
4	's	's	PART	_	3 heap	case
5	steaming	steaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fire	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 steaming	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fire	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fire	nsubj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 fire	case
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 fire	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 happening	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 happening	aux
14	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fire	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 fire	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	heap steaming			fire			tree rules
2	happen	present · progressive	fire						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Someone poured a kettle of hot water in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 poured	nsubj
2	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kettle	det
4	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poured	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kettle	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	2 poured	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	past	Someone	a kettle of hot water					vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient

Option 2

The worms are cooking it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 worms	det
2	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cooking	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cooking	aux
4	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cooking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	present · progressive	the worms	it					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Yes, it is about to burst into flames

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 about	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 about	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 burst	mark
7	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	xcomp
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 flames	case
9	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burst	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					about property	tree rules
2	burst	to-infinitive				flames			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Microbes breaking down the scraps make heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
2	breaking	break	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Microbes	acl
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 scraps	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 scraps	det
5	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 breaking	obl
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break down	gerund	Microbes not said here	the scraps					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scrap=Patient
2	make	present	Microbes	heat					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=Product

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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