Test 8 · Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats

Why did cool countries look for another sugar plant than cane?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cool countries · What happens: do, look

This is test 8 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 countries	amod
4	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 plant	case
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 plant	det
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plant	compound
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 cane	case
11	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plant	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	look	present	cool countries					for another sugar plant than cane	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for plant=Theme

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

Beet sugar is much sweeter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beet	beet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sugar	compound
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sweeter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sweeter	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 sweeter	advmod
5	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Beet sugar					sweet property	tree rules

Option 2

Cane sugar was found to be poisonous for people in cold places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sugar	compound
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux:pass
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 poisonous	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 poisonous	cop
7	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 poisonous	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 places	case
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 places	amod
12	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		Cane sugar					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is	to-infinitive	Cane sugar not said here					for people in cold places; poisonous property	tree rules

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

Cane needs heat, but beet grows well in cool places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grows	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 grows	cc
6	beet	beet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grows	nsubj
7	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 needs	conj
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 grows	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 places	case
10	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 places	amod
11	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Cane	heat					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot heat=Theme
2	grow	present	beet			cool places		well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location

Option 4

Cane cannot be crushed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crushed	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 crushed	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 crushed	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 crushed	aux:pass
5	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not crush	can · passive		Cane					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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