Test 12 · Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats

Why might a hot drink like tea be so popular in a cold, rainy country?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hot drink · What happens: be · To what, where: cold

This is test 12 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 popular	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 popular	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drink	det
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drink	amod
5	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 popular	nsubj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 tea	case
7	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	nmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 popular	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 popular	advmod
10	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 cold	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cold	det
13	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 popular	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 country	punct
15	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 country	amod
16	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cold	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 popular	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	a hot drink like tea			a cold and rainy country		popular 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.

The options

Option 1

Rain water makes the best tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	compound
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tea	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 tea	amod
6	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Rain water	the best tea					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tea=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tea only grows in rainy countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 grows	advmod
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 countries	case
5	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 countries	amod
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Tea			rainy countries			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location

Option 3

People there cannot drink cold drinks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drink	nsubj
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 drink	expl
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 drink	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 drink	advmod
5	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 drinks	amod
7	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not drink	can	People	cold drinks		there			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It warms people up and became a habit once tea gardens gave a steady supply

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warms	nsubj
2	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 warms	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 warms	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 became	cc
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 warms	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 habit	det
8	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	xcomp
9	once	once	SCONJ	_	12 gave	mark
10	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gardens	compound
11	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 habit	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 supply	det
14	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 supply	amod
15	supply	supply	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	warm up	present	It	people	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument people=Patient
2	become	past		a habit	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	give	past	tea gardens	a steady supply	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supply=Theme

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