Test 8 · ★ · Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime tree…

«i'll eat the kalyna berries off the bush now, it's summer» What will they taste like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: i, bush, berries · What happens: eat, be, taste · To what, where: kalyna berries, summer

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 377 «Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses» 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	_	4 eat	punct
2	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 berries	det
6	kalyna	kalyna	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 berries	compound
7	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 bush	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bush	det
10	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 berries	nmod
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 eat	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 summer	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 summer	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 summer	cop
15	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	parataxis
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 taste	obj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 taste	aux
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 taste	nsubj
20	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 eat	conj
21	like	like	INTJ	_	20 taste	discourse
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	future	i	the kalyna berries	now	off the bush	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient
2	is a in a quote	present	bush	summer			tree rules
3	taste	future	berries = berry				vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme what=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

Very bitter, until frosts soften them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 bitter	advmod
2	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bitter	punct
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 soften	mark
5	frosts	frost	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 soften	nsubj
6	soften	soften	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bitter	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 soften	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soften	present	frosts	them = they					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

Salty like crisps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salty	salty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 crisps	case
3	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Salty	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Like nothing at all, just like water from a tap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	2 nothing	case
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 nothing	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 water	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 water	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nothing	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 tap	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tap	det
11	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nothing	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Sweet like strawberries and cream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 strawberries	case
3	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sweet	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cream	cc
5	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strawberries	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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