Test 11 · ★★ · Flowers and pollination

Why does honey keep for years without going bad?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: honey · What happens: keep, go

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 58 «Flowers and pollination» 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	4 keep	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obl
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 keep	advcl
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 going	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	honey				year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go	gerund	honey not said here					bad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Bees put salt in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	Bees	salt		salt			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme in it=Destination

Option 2

The jar keeps it cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jar	det
2	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keeps	obj
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the jar	it				cold property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is so dry and sugary that germs cannot grow in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dry	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 dry	advmod
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sugary	cc
6	sugary	sugary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dry	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 grow	mark
8	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grow	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 grow	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 grow	advmod
11	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sugary	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		dry property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	not grow	can	germs	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location

Option 4

It doesn't, it goes bad after a week, just like milk left out of the fridge

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 does	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 goes	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	conj
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 goes	xcomp
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 week	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 milk	punct
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 milk	advmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 milk	case
14	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obl
15	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 milk	acl
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 fridge	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 fridge	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fridge	det
19	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not do	present	It			like milk	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	present	it		week	bad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave out	participle	milk not said here	the fridge			vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fridge=Theme

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