Test 8 · ★★ · A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter f…

Why would a farmer not spread muck just before heavy rain?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: not spread · To what, where: farmer

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 spread	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 spread	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	nsubj:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 spread	advmod
6	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	muck	muck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	obj
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 rain	advmod
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 rain	case
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rain	amod
11	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 spread	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spread	would · passive		a farmer			before heavy rain		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

Rain makes muck smell sweeter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	muck	muck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
4	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 smell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Rain	muck					tree rules
2	smell	infinitive	muck not said here					sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

The tractor would float away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tractor	det
2	tractor	tractor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 float	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 float	aux
4	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 float	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float away	would	the tractor					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Muck turns to ice in rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Muck	muck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 ice	case
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 rain	case
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Muck			rain		to ice	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to ice=Source in rain=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The rain could wash it into rivers and harm fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rain	det
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wash	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wash	aux
4	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wash	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 rivers	case
7	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wash	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fish	cc
9	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fish	compound
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rivers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	could	the rain	it		rivers and harm fish			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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