Test 7 · Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats

«why's Brazil burning all that cane stuff» What are the leftover crushed stems used for?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Brazil, leftover · What happens: burn, be, crush, use · To what, where: cane stuff, stems

This is test 7 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	_	5 burning	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 burning	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 burning	aux
4	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 burning	nsubj
5	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 What	nsubj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 stuff	det:predet
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 stuff	det
8	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuff	compound
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burning	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 burning	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 crushed	obj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 What	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 leftover	det
14	leftover	leftover	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crushed	nsubj
15	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 crushed	obj
17	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stems	acl
18	for	for	ADP	_	17 used	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 crushed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	burn in a quote	present · progressive	Brazil	all cane stuff	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme
2	is a	present			tree rules
3	crush	past	the leftover	stems	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Patient
4	use	participle		stems not said here	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

They are thrown into the sea

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	3 thrown	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thrown	aux:pass
3	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	present · passive		They				into the sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into sea=Result

Option 2

They are made into chocolate

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	3 made	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 chocolate	case
5	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		They		chocolate			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into chocolate=Product

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

They are burned to power the sugar mills

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	3 burned	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 burned	aux:pass
3	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 power	mark
5	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burned	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mills	det
7	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mills	compound
8	mills	mill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present · passive		They				the sugar mills obl	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 4

They are burned to scare the insects away from the fields

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	3 burned	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 burned	aux:pass
3	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 scare	mark
5	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 burned	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 insects	det
7	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scare	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 scare	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 fields	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fields	det
11	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present · passive		They					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	scare	to-infinitive		the insects				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus insect=Experiencer

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