Test 5 · ★ · Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world

«spuds are just roots innit» What is the true answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spuds, roots innit · What happens: be · To what, where: roots innit, true answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	_	6 innit	punct
2	spuds	spud	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 innit	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 innit	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 innit	advmod
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 innit	compound
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
8	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 answer	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 answer	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 answer	det
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 answer	amod
12	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 innit	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	spuds	roots innit and the true answer					tree rules
2	be speech: assert	present	roots innit and the true answer	the true 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, they are roots, the same as carrots and parsnips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 roots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 roots	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 roots	cop
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 same	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 roots	amod
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 carrots	case
10	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 same	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 parsnips	cc
12	parsnips	parsnip	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carrots	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	roots					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, a potato is a swollen underground stem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 stem	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 potato	det
4	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stem	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stem	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stem	det
7	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stem	amod
8	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stem	amod
9	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a potato	a swollen underground stem					tree rules

Option 3

No, they are seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 seeds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seeds	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seeds	cop
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	seeds					tree rules

Option 4

No, they are fruits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 fruits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fruits	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fruits	cop
5	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	fruits					tree rules

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