Test 8 · ★ · The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs

Why might radishes be good for a child's first garden?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: radishes · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 good	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 good	aux
3	radishes	radish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 good	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 good	cop
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	11 garden	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 garden	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 child	case
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 garden	amod
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 good	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	radishes					for a child's first garden; good 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

They need no water ever

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	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 need	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	They	no water			ever		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme

Option 2

They grow only in winter

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	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	They				winter		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They grow bigger than pumpkins, so they are easy to find

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	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 grow	xcomp
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 pumpkins	case
5	pumpkins	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bigger	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 easy	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 easy	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 easy	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 easy	cop
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grow	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 find	mark
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 easy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grow	present	They	big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	pumpkins = pumpkin	easy property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	pumpkins = pumpkin not said here		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They grow fast and can be ready in about four weeks

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	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 grow	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ready	cc
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 ready	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 ready	cop
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grow	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 weeks	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 four	advmod
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 weeks	nummod
11	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ready	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	They					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	can	They not said here				week	ready property	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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