Test 10 · ★ · Nuts, beans, seeds and spices

«saffron's crazy dear, what a rip-off» Why is it really so expensive?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: saffron · What happens: off, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 348 «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» 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 dear	punct
2	saffron	saffron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dear	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 saffron	case
4	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dear	amod
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 off	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 off	nsubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 off	det
9	rip	rip	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 off	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 rip	punct
11	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dear	parataxis
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 off	punct
13	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 expensive	advmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 expensive	cop
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 expensive	nsubj
16	really	really	ADV	_	18 expensive	advmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 expensive	advmod
18	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 off	advcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	off in a quote								tree rules
2	is	present	saffron					expensive 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 · ← Mova's choice

It grows only on the Moon

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 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 Moon	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 Moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It			the Moon			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moon=Location

Option 2

It is made from gold dust

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	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 dust	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dust	compound
6	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		It		gold dust			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from dust=Material

Option 3

It is just dyed sugar

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 sugar	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sugar	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 sugar	advmod
4	dyed	dyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sugar	amod
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	dyed sugar					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Each flower gives only three threads, picked by hand, and huge numbers are needed

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 flower	det
2	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 three	advmod
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 threads	nummod
6	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gives	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 picked	punct
8	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 threads	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 hand	case
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 picked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 needed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 needed	cc
13	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 numbers	amod
14	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 needed	nsubj:pass
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 needed	aux:pass
16	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gives	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	each flower	three threads		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme
2	pick	participle		three threads not said here	by hand	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	need	present · passive		huge numbers		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

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