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Test 3 · ★ · Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world

A farmer finds a cob with lots of gaps where kernels are missing. What does it tell him?

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

This is test 3 · ★ 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: A farmer finds a cob with lots of gaps where kernels are missing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	nsubj
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cob	det
5	cob	cob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 lots	case
7	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 finds	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 gaps	case
9	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lots	nmod
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 missing	advmod
11	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 missing	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 missing	cop
13	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gaps	acl:relcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	a farmer	a cob				with lots of gaps	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cob=Topic
2	is	present	kernels					missing 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.

Sentence 2: What does it tell him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	farmer		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The cob was too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cob	det
2	cob	cob	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cold	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cob					cold property	tree rules

Option 2

The cob grew too fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cob	det
2	cob	cob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the cob					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Mice stole the kernels at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kernels	det
4	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stole	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	Mice	the kernels			night		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kernel=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Those silks got no pollen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 silks	det
2	silks	silk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 pollen	det
5	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	that silks	no pollen					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pollen=Stimulus

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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