Test 2 · ★ · The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs

How could you protect lettuce without harming hedgehogs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: protect, harm · To what, where: lettuce, hedgehogs

This is test 2 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 protect	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 protect	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 protect	nsubj
4	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 protect	obj
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 harming	mark
7	harming	harm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 protect	advcl
8	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 harming	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 protect	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	could	you	lettuce					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lettuce=Beneficiary
2	harm	gerund	you not said here	hedgehogs					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hedgehog=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

Welcome slug eaters like frogs and thrushes, and pick slugs off at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eaters	amod
2	slug	slug	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eaters	compound
3	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pick	nsubj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 frogs	case
5	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eaters	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thrushes	cc
7	thrushes	thrush	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frogs	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pick	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pick	cc
10	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pick	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	10 pick	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick off	infinitive	Welcome slug eaters like frogs and thrushes	slugs			night		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slug=Patient

Option 2

Cover the lettuce and the soil around it with a thick layer of salt every day

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lettuce	det
3	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cover	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 soil	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soil	det
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lettuce	conj
7	around	around	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Cover	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 layer	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 layer	det
11	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 layer	amod
12	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cover	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 salt	case
14	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 layer	nmod
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cover	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	imperative	you not said here	the lettuce and the soil		soil	day	with a thick layer of salt	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent lettuce=Destination with layer=Theme

Option 3

Plant the lettuce in the pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lettuce	det
3	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Plant	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pond	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pond	det
6	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Plant	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	imperative	you not said here	the lettuce		the pond			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lettuce=Theme in pond=Destination

Option 4

Spray the hedgehogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spray	spray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hedgehogs	det
3	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Spray	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	imperative	you not said here		the hedgehogs				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Destination

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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