Test 4 · ★ · The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs

«potato plant's got mini tomatoes on it, sick, let's eat them» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: potato plant, you, 's · What happens: get, let, eat, be · To what, where: mini tomatoes, it, 's, tomatoes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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 got	punct
2	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plant	compound
3	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 let	advcl
6	mini	mini	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tomatoes	amod
7	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tomatoes	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sick	punct
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tomatoes	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eat	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 let	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	potato plant	mini tomatoes	it		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tomato=Theme on it=Source
2	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	's			tree rules
3	eat in a quote	infinitive	's not said here	tomatoes = tomato			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are poisonous potato berries; do not eat them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 berries	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 berries	cop
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 berries	amod
4	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 berries	compound
5	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 eat	punct
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 eat	advmod
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 berries	acl:relcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	poisonous potato berries					tree rules
2	not eat	infinitive · do-support	poisonous potato berries not said here	berries = berry					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

They are safe once washed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 safe	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 washed	advmod
5	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 safe	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					safe property	tree rules
2	wash	participle	They not said here					once property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They are sweet baby potatoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 potatoes	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 potatoes	cop
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 potatoes	amod
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 potatoes	compound
5	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	sweet baby potatoes					tree rules

Option 4

They are real tomatoes, carried over from a tomato plant by bees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tomatoes	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tomatoes	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tomatoes	amod
4	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 carried	punct
6	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tomatoes	acl
7	over	over	ADV	_	6 carried	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 plant	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 plant	det
10	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plant	compound
11	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 bees	case
13	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	real tomatoes					tree rules
2	carry over	participle		real tomatoes not said here		a tomato plant		by bees; over property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from plant=Initial_Location

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