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Test 9 · ★ · Nuts, beans, seeds and spices

A farmer grows wheat in the same field every year and the wheat gets weaker. What could help?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer, wheat · What happens: grow, get, help · To what, where: wheat, same field

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A farmer grows wheat in the same field every year and the wheat gets weaker.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 field	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 field	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 field	amod
8	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obl:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gets	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wheat	det
13	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gets	nsubj
14	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grows	conj
15	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 gets	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	a farmer	wheat		the same field	year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheat=Theme
2	get	present	the wheat					weak property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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.

Sentence 2: What could help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 help	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	could							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Painting the soil black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painting	paint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soil	det
3	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Painting	obj
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Painting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	gerund		the soil				black property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent soil=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Growing wheat twice a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Growing	obj
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Growing	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Growing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund		wheat			year	twice property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheat=Theme

Option 3

Planting the wheat deeper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Planting	plant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wheat	det
3	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Planting	obj
4	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Planting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	gerund		the wheat				deep property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Growing beans in that field one year, to enrich the soil with nitrogen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 enrich	csubj
2	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Growing	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 field	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 field	det
5	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Growing	obl
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 year	nummod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Growing	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 enrich	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 enrich	mark
10	enrich	enrich	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 soil	det
12	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 enrich	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 nitrogen	case
14	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 enrich	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund		beans		that field	year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bean=Theme
2	enrich	to-infinitive	Growing	the soil				with nitrogen	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent soil=Destination with nitrogen=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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