Test 5 · ★★ · A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter f…

How is silage like pickled cucumbers?

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

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 349 «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	silage	silage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 How	nsubj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 cucumbers	case
5	pickled	pickle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cucumbers	amod
6	cucumbers	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 silage	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	silage like pickled cucumbers					how property	tree rules
2	pickle	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Both are laid out and dried in the sun until all their water is gone and they go crisp

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 laid	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	aux:pass
3	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 laid	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dried	cc
6	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 laid	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 gone	mark
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 water	det:predet
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 water	nmod:poss
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gone	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	cop
15	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 laid	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 go	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
18	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	conj
19	crisp	crisp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay out	present · passive		Both	the sun		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in sun=Destination
2	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	their water			gone property	tree rules
4	go	present	they			crisp property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Both are boiled in sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 boiled	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 boiled	aux:pass
3	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 sugar	case
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boiled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	present · passive		Both				in sugar	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in sugar=Instrument

Option 3

Both are frozen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 frozen	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 frozen	aux:pass
3	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present · passive		Both					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Both are kept without air so bacteria make acid that stops them rotting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 kept	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	aux:pass
3	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 air	case
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 make	advmod
7	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	nsubj
8	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	advcl
9	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 stops	nsubj
11	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 acid	acl:relcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stops	obj
13	rotting	rot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 stops	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		Both	without air	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	make	present	bacteria	acid		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product
3	stop	present	acid	bacteria = bacterium		tree rules
4	rot	gerund	acid not said here			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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