Test 8 · ★ · Nuts, beans, seeds and spices

«why'd anyone pay rent in pepper, that's mental» Why did it make sense in the Middle Ages?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: anyone, that, rent · What happens: pay, be, make · To what, where: rent, pepper, sense, Middle Ages

This is test 8 · ★ 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 pay	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 pay	advmod
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pay	aux
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 pay	nsubj
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 pepper	case
8	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mental	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 mental	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mental	cop
12	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pay	advcl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 mental	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 make	advmod
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 make	nsubj
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pay	advcl
18	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 Ages	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Ages	det
21	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Ages	flat
22	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 make	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay in a quote	would	anyone	rent	pepper			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Asset
2	is in a quote	present	that				mental property	tree rules
3	make	past · do-support	rent	sense		in the Middle Ages		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sense=Product

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

Landlords wanted to sneeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Landlords	landlord	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sneeze	mark
4	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Landlords						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sneeze not said to happen	to-infinitive	Landlords not said here						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Pepper came from far away and was very valuable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 away	case
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 valuable	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 valuable	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 valuable	advmod
9	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Pepper					away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Pepper not said here					valuable property	tree rules

Option 3

Money had not been invented

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invented	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 invented	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 invented	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 invented	aux:pass
5	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not invent	past · perfect · passive		Money					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

Option 4

Pepper was the only food people had left to eat in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux:pass
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	compound
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 left	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 left	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 winter	case
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect · passive		Pepper					tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	Pepper not said here				winter		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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