Test 2 · ★ · Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world

«found a cob with 15 rows, bet that's normal» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, best answer · What happens: find, bet, be · To what, where: cob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cob	det
4	cob	cob	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 rows	case
6	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 rows	nummod
7	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bet	punct
9	bet	bet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 normal	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 normal	cop
12	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bet	ccomp
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 found	parataxis
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 What	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 answer	amod
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 What	nsubj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past		a cob	with 15 rows	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent cob=Attribute clause=Theme
2	bet in a quote	infinitive				vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	that		normal property	tree rules
4	is a	present	the best answer			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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, odd numbers of rows are the most common kind of all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 numbers	amod
4	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kind	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 rows	case
6	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 numbers	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kind	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kind	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 common	advmod
10	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kind	amod
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	odd numbers of rows	the common kind				of all	tree rules

Option 2

Rows have nothing to do with pairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 have	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 pairs	case
7	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Rows	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	Rows not said here	nothing not said here				with pairs	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

All cobs have exactly 15 rows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 cobs	det
2	cobs	cob	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 15	advmod
5	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 rows	nummod
6	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	all cobs	15 rows					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would be very unusual, because kernels grow in pairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 unusual	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 unusual	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 unusual	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 unusual	advmod
5	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grow	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 grow	mark
8	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grow	nsubj
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unusual	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 pairs	case
11	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					unusual property	tree rules
2	grow	present	kernels			pairs			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pair=Location

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