Test 3 · ★ · The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs

«it's a vegetable, you don't put tomato in a fruit salad, you muppet» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, you, muppet · What happens: be, not put, muppet · To what, where: vegetable, tomato, fruit salad

This is test 3 · ★ 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	_	5 vegetable	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 vegetable	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 vegetable	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vegetable	det
5	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 put	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 put	advmod
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 vegetable	conj
11	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 salad	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 salad	det
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 salad	compound
15	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 muppet	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 muppet	nsubj
18	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vegetable	appos
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 muppet	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 right	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 right	cop
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 muppet	acl:relcl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 vegetable	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	a vegetable			tree rules
2	not put in a quote	present · do-support	you	tomato	a fruit salad		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tomato=Theme in salad=Destination
3	muppet in a quote		you				tree rules
4	is	present	muppet			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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Scientists call it a fruit because it holds seeds, though cooks treat it as a vegetable

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 call	nsubj
2	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 call	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fruit	det
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 call	xcomp
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 holds	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 holds	nsubj
8	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 call	advcl
9	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 holds	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 treat	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 treat	mark
12	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 treat	nsubj
13	treat	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 call	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 treat	obj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 vegetable	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 vegetable	det
17	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 treat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present	Scientists	it		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	hold	present	fruit	seeds		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme
3	treat	present	cooks	fruit	as a vegetable	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as vegetable=Attribute

Option 2

It is only a vegetable

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	5 vegetable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 vegetable	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 vegetable	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vegetable	det
5	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a vegetable					tree rules

Option 3

It is a vegetable because it is eaten with salt, and fruit is always sweet

The tree, 15 words

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	4 vegetable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 vegetable	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vegetable	det
4	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 eaten	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eaten	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eaten	aux:pass
8	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 vegetable	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 salt	case
10	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eaten	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sweet	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sweet	cc
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sweet	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sweet	cop
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 sweet	advmod
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vegetable	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a vegetable		tree rules
2	eat	present · passive	a vegetable not said here	vegetable	with salt	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is	present	fruit		always, sweet property	tree rules

Option 4

It is a root

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	4 root	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 root	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 root	det
4	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a root					tree rules

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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