Test 8 · ★ · Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world

«white rice is better, it's cleaner» What is the fairest reply?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: white rice, rice, fairest reply · What happens: be · To what, where: cleaner

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	5 better	punct
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rice	amod
3	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 better	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 better	cop
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cleaner	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cleaner	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cleaner	cop
9	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 better	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 cleaner	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 better	obl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 What	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 reply	det
14	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 reply	amod
15	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 What	nsubj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	white rice		good property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	rice	cleaner		tree rules
3	is a	present	the fairest reply			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

White rice has more vitamins than brown, because the polishing adds extra goodness to it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rice	amod
2	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 vitamins	amod
5	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 brown	case
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 vitamins	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 adds	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 adds	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 polishing	det
11	polishing	polishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 adds	nsubj
12	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
13	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 goodness	amod
14	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 adds	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 adds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	White rice	more vitamins				than brown	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=Patient
2	add speech: assert	present	the polishing	extra goodness	rice				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent goodness=Patient to it=Co-Patient

Option 2

Brown rice is just dirty white rice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rice	amod
2	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rice	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rice	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 rice	advmod
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rice	amod
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rice	amod
7	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Brown rice	dirty white rice					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

White rice cooks faster and keeps longer, but the bran it lost held vitamin B1

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rice	amod
2	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooks	nsubj
3	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 cooks	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keeps	cc
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cooks	conj
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 keeps	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 held	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 held	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bran	det
11	bran	bran	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	nsubj:pass
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lost	nsubj
13	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bran	acl:relcl
14	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cooks	advcl
15	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obj
16	B1	B1	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 vitamin	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cook	present	White rice		fast property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	keep	present	White rice not said here		long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lose	past	bran	the bran not said here		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bran=Eventuality
4	hold	participle · passive		the bran		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme vitamin=Eventuality

Option 4

They are exactly the same in every way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 same	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 same	cop
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 same	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 same	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They			every way		exactly, same property	tree rules

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