Test 6 · Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats
«the goats found coffee and went mental dancing, that's in the history books» What is the best answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: goats, that, best answer · What happens: find, go, be · To what, where: coffee, mental dancing, history books · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goats | det |
| 3 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 8 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dancing | amod |
| 9 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 books | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 books | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 books | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 books | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 books | det |
| 15 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 books | compound |
| 16 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dancing | appos |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 books | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 went | parataxis |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 What | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 answer | det |
| 21 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 answer | amod |
| 22 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 What | nsubj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | past | the goats | coffee | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | the goats not said here | mental dancing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | the history books | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the best 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
No, goats never eat plants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 goats | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 eat | advmod |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | present | goats | plants | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient |
Option 2
Yes, it is a proven fact with dates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 fact | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fact | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fact | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fact | det |
| 6 | proven | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fact | amod |
| 7 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 dates | case |
| 9 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fact | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | participle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | a proven fact | with dates | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It is an old legend; coffee did grow wild in Ethiopia, but nobody can prove the goat story
The tree, 18 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 | 5 legend | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 legend | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 legend | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 legend | amod |
| 5 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 legend | punct |
| 7 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grow | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grow | aux |
| 9 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 legend | acl:relcl |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grow | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Ethiopia | case |
| 12 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 grow | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 prove | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 prove | cc |
| 15 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 prove | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 prove | aux |
| 17 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 legend | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 story | det |
| 19 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 story | compound |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prove | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a old legend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past · do-support | coffee | a old legend not said here | Ethiopia | wild property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location legend=Theme | ||
| 3 | prove | can | nobody | the goat story | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
Option 4
No, coffee was found in Brazil by sailors
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 found | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | aux:pass |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Brazil | case |
| 7 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 sailors | case |
| 9 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | sailors | coffee | Brazil | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
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