Test 11 · Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats
In a cartoon, a goofy coffee bean is brown and shiny on the bush. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: goofy coffee bean · What happens: be · To what, where: cartoon, bush
This is test 11 of lesson 347 «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» 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: In a cartoon, a goofy coffee bean is brown and shiny on the bush.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brown | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bean | det |
| 6 | goofy | goofy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bean | amod |
| 7 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bean | compound |
| 8 | bean | bean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brown | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brown | cop |
| 10 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shiny | cc |
| 12 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brown | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 bush | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bush | det |
| 15 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shiny | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 brown | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a goofy coffee bean | a cartoon | brown property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | a goofy coffee bean not said here | the bush | 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 is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Coffee beans grow under the ground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beans | compound |
| 2 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Coffee beans | the ground | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ground=Location |
Option 2
Coffee beans grow in pods on the trunk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beans | compound |
| 2 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 pods | case |
| 5 | pods | pod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grow | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 trunk | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trunk | det |
| 8 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Coffee beans | pods | on the trunk | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pod=Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Coffee beans are green until roasted, and they sit inside red cherries
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beans | compound |
| 2 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 green | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 green | cop |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 roasted | mark |
| 6 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 green | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sit | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sit | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sit | nsubj |
| 10 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 green | parataxis |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 13 cherries | case |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cherries | amod |
| 13 | cherries | cherry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Coffee beans | green property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roast | participle | Coffee beans not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | sit | present | beans = bean | red cherries | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside cherry=Location |
Option 4
Nothing, coffee grows brown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 coffee | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | nsubj |
| 4 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grows | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Nothing coffee | brown property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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