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Test 5 · ★ · The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs

In a cartoon a farmer picks potatoes off a tall tree. What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: pick, be · To what, where: potatoes, cartoon

This is test 5 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon a farmer picks potatoes off a tall tree.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picks	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 farmer	det
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picks	nsubj
6	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 picks	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	11 tree	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
10	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tree	amod
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picks	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 picks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	present	a farmer	potatoes		a cartoon		off a tall tree	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Potatoes are swollen stems that grow underground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stems	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stems	cop
3	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stems	amod
4	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 grow	nsubj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stems	acl:relcl
7	underground	underground	ADV	_	6 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Potatoes	swollen stems					tree rules
2	grow	present	swollen stems					underground property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Potatoes fall from the sky in rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fall	nsubj
2	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 sky	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sky	det
5	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fall	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 rain	case
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	Potatoes			the sky		in rain	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in rain=Location

Option 3

Potatoes grow inside pea pods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	5 pods	case
4	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pods	compound
5	pods	pod	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Potatoes			pea pods			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside pod=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Potatoes grow on trees in hot countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 trees	case
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 countries	case
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 countries	amod
7	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Potatoes			trees		in hot countries	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location

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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