Test 4 · Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew…

«ugh, potato's gone green on one side, whatever, I'll just boil it» What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: potato, I, gone green · What happens: be, boil · To what, where: one side, potato, best advice

This is test 4 of lesson 392 «Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade» 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	_	7 green	punct
2	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	7 green	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ugh	punct
4	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 green	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 green	cop
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 green	amod
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 advice	nsubj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 side	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 side	nummod
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 green	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 whatever	punct
12	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 green	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 boil	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 boil	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 boil	aux
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 boil	advmod
17	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 green	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 boil	obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 green	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 advice	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 advice	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 advice	det
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 advice	amod
24	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 advice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	potato		one side	green property	tree rules
2	boil in a quote	future	I	potato			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is a	present	gone green	the best advice			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 · ← Mova's choice

Boiling turns green potatoes into sweet ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 potatoes	amod
4	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turns	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 ones	case
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Boiling	green potatoes				into sweet ones	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent potato=Theme into one=Trajectory

Option 2

Green potatoes are the healthiest kind, so eat it all, skin and all

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 potatoes	amod
2	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kind	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kind	det
5	healthiest	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 kind	amod
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eat	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 eat	advmod
9	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eat	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 it	det
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 skin	punct
13	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 all	cc
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 kind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Green potatoes	the healthiest kind and skin					tree rules
2	eat	infinitive		it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Green means it is ripe and ready to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ripe	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ripe	cop
5	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ready	cc
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ripe	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ready	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Green		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Green	ripe property	tree rules
3	be		Green not said here		tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	Green not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cut the green parts away or throw it out, green parts carry more poison

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 parts	det
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 parts	amod
4	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cut	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Cut	advmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 throw	cc
7	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Cut	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 throw	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 throw	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 carry	punct
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 parts	amod
12	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 carry	nsubj
13	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Cut	parataxis
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 poison	amod
15	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	the green parts	away property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset part=Product
2	throw out	infinitive	you not said here	it		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	carry	present	green parts	more poison		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=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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