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Test 12 · ★ · Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world

In Ice Age, Scrat chases an acorn. If he had a corn cob instead and planted every kernel, what would grow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scrat, kernel · What happens: chase, plant, grow · To what, where: acorn, Ice Age, kernel

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 345 «Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world» 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 Ice Age, Scrat chases an acorn.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 Age	case
2	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Age	compound
3	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chases	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Age	punct
5	Scrat	Scrat	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chases	nsubj
6	chases	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 acorn	det
8	acorn	acorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chases	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 chases	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	present	Scrat	a acorn			in Ice Age		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent acorn=Theme in age=Trajectory

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: If he had a corn cob instead and planted every kernel, what would grow?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 planted	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cob	det
5	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cob	compound
6	cob	cob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	9 planted	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 planted	cc
9	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 kernel	det
11	kernel	kernel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 planted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grow	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 grow	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 grow	aux
15	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 kernel	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 planted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	past · perfect		every kernel				instead property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kernel=Patient
2	grow	would	every kernel						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing would grow, because corn kernels are only food and not seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 food	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 food	mark
6	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kernels	compound
7	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 food	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 food	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 food	advmod
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seeds	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 seeds	advmod
13	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Nothing						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	corn kernels	food and seeds					tree rules

Option 2

One big oak tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 tree	nummod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A field of potatoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 field	det
2	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 potatoes	case
4	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 field	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A maize plant from each kernel, because each kernel is a seed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plant	det
2	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plant	compound
3	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seed	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 kernel	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 kernel	det
6	kernel	kernel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plant	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kernel	punct
8	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 kernel	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 kernel	det
10	kernel	kernel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plant	conj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 seed	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 seed	det
13	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a maize plant from each kernel and each kernel	a seed					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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