Test 4 · ★ · Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world

If one grain of rice gives a thousand, how many would ten grains give?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: one grain, ten grains · What happens: give · To what, where: thousand, many

This is test 4 · ★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 gives	mark
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 grain	nummod
3	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 rice	case
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grain	nmod
6	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 give	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thousand	det
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 gives	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gives	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 give	obj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
13	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 grains	nummod
14	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 give	nsubj
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give a condition, not said to happen	present	one grain of rice	a thousand					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme
2	give	would	ten grains	many					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ten thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

One thousand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	list

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

Option 3

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

One hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	nmod

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

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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