Test 6 · ★ · The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs

«this spud's gone a bit green, whatever, chips are chips» What should be done?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spud, chips · What happens: go, be, do · To what, where: chips

This is test 6 · ★ 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 gone	punct
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 spud	det
3	spud	spud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 green	obl
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gone	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 whatever	punct
10	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 gone	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chips	punct
12	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 chips	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 chips	cop
14	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 whatever	nsubj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 chips	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 done	obj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 done	aux:pass
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 chips	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · passive	this spud		green property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	chips	chips		tree rules
3	do	should · passive		chips		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

Cut off and throw away the green part, which has a bitter poison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Cut	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 throw	cc
4	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Cut	conj
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 throw	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 part	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 part	amod
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 part	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 poison	det
13	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 poison	amod
14	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut off	imperative	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	throw away	infinitive	you not said here	the green part	away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
3	have	present	the green part	a bitter poison		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient

Option 2

Give it to the dog instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 dog	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obl
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	it	the dog			instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to dog=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Eat it anyway, because frying it in hot oil makes the green part safe

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Eat	obj
3	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Eat	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 makes	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 makes	mark
6	frying	fry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 makes	csubj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 frying	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 oil	case
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 oil	amod
10	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frying	obl
11	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Eat	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 part	det
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 part	amod
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	obj
15	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	it	anyway property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	fry	gerund		it	in hot oil	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient in oil=Instrument
3	make	present	frying	the green part	safe property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset part=Product

Option 4

Paint it white first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paint	paint	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Paint	obj
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Paint	xcomp
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Paint	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	imperative	you not said here	it				first, white property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination

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