Test 1 · ★ · The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs

«just chuck slug pellets everywhere, kill the lot of 'em» What is the problem?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: chuck, kill, be · To what, where: slug pellets, lot, problem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 338 «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs» 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	_	3 chuck	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 chuck	advmod
3	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	slug	slug	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pellets	compound
5	pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chuck	obj
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 chuck	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kill	punct
8	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 chuck	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lot	det
10	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kill	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 'em	case
12	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lot	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 chuck	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 problem	obj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 problem	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 problem	det
17	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chuck	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chuck in a quote	imperative	you not said here	slug pellets	everywhere property	tree rules
2	kill in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the lot of 'em		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme
3	is a	present		the problem		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

Pellets make lettuce grow too fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Pellets	lettuce					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	lettuce not said here					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Pellets can harm hedgehogs and birds that eat slugs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 harm	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 harm	aux
3	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 harm	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 birds	cc
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hedgehogs	conj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 eat	nsubj
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hedgehogs	acl:relcl
9	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	can	Pellets	hedgehogs and birds					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hedgehog=Experiencer
2	eat	present	hedgehogs and birds	slugs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slug=Patient

Option 3

There is no problem at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 problem	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 problem	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no problem at all			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Slugs love pellets and get bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 love	nsubj
2	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 love	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 get	cc
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 love	conj
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	Slugs	pellets					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pellet=Stimulus
2	get	infinitive	Slugs not said here					big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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