Test 7 · Honey and the beekeeper's year

Why can honey keep for years while fruit juice goes off in days?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: honey, fruit juice · What happens: keep, go off

This is test 7 of lesson 344 «Honey and the beekeeper's year» 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	4 keep	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 goes	mark
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 juice	compound
9	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goes	nsubj
10	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	advcl
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 goes	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 days	case
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 goes	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	can	honey				year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go off	present	fruit juice				day		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

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

Bees add a poison to it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 add	nsubj
2	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 poison	det
4	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 add	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 add	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	Bees	a poison	poison				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent poison=Patient to it=Co-Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Honey has so much sugar and so little water that germs cannot grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sugar	amod
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 water	cc
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 little	advmod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sugar	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 grow	mark
11	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 grow	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 grow	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 grow	advmod
14	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 water	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Honey	much sugar and little water					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient
2	not grow	can	germs	little water not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme

Option 3

Juice is made in factories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 factories	case
5	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Juice		factories			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

Honey is kept in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	aux:pass
3	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		Honey		the dark			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in dark=Location

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