Test 3 · ★★ · The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts

«bro i'm gonna roast these conkers like at the Christmas market» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: roast, be · To what, where: conkers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 335 «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» 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	_	6 roast	punct
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roast	vocative
3	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 roast	nsubj
4	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 roast	aux
5	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 roast	dep
6	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 conkers	det
8	conkers	conker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 roast	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	13 market	case
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 market	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 market	det
12	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 market	compound
13	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conkers	nmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 roast	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 roast	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 roast	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast in a quote	present	i	this conkers				like the Christmas market; bro vocative	tree rules
2	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

Only the shell is poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 shell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shell	det
3	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poisonous	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 poisonous	cop
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the shell					poisonous property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Conkers are sweeter than chestnuts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Conkers	conker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sweeter	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sweeter	cop
3	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 chestnuts	case
5	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sweeter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Conkers					than chestnuts; sweet property	tree rules

Option 3

Roasting makes conkers safe, just like the chestnuts at the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roasting	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	conkers	conker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 chestnuts	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 chestnuts	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 chestnuts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chestnuts	det
9	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 market	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 market	det
12	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	make	present		conkers		the market		like the chestnuts; safe property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset conker=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Conkers are poisonous; only sweet chestnuts are roasted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Conkers	conker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 poisonous	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	cop
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 roasted	punct
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 chestnuts	advmod
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chestnuts	amod
7	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 roasted	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 roasted	aux:pass
9	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 poisonous	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Conkers					poisonous property	tree rules
2	roast	present · passive		sweet chestnuts					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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