Test 1 · Seeds and fruit and how they travel

in my cartoon the tomato's in the veg gang. is it a fruit or a veg then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: gang, my · What happens: be, cartoon · To what, where: fruit, cartoon

This is test 1 of lesson 59 «Seeds and fruit and how they travel» 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	in	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cartoon	nmod:poss
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fruit	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tomato	det
5	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cartoon	nmod
6	's	's	PART	_	5 tomato	case
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 gang	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gang	det
9	veg	veg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gang	compound
10	gang	gang	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tomato	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fruit	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fruit	nsubj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fruit	det
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 veg	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 veg	det
18	veg	veg	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fruit	conj
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 fruit	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 fruit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	gang	a fruit or a veg		my cartoon 's the tomato in the veg gang	then		tree rules
2	cartoon		my					's the tomato in the veg gang	nom cartoon «communication transitive»: poss=agent 's=obl

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

It is a nut, because it has seeds

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 nut	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nut	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nut	det
4	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 has	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nut	acl:relcl
9	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a nut					tree rules
2	have	present	nut	seeds					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To a scientist it's a fruit, as it holds seeds; cooks say veg

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 scientist	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 scientist	det
3	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fruit	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fruit	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fruit	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fruit	det
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 holds	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 holds	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 holds	nsubj
11	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fruit	conj
12	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 holds	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
14	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fruit	parataxis
16	veg	veg	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	scientist	a fruit	to a scientist	tree rules
2	hold	present	scientist	seeds		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	cooks	veg		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent veg=Topic

Option 3

It is a root, like a carrot

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 root	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 root	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 root	det
4	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 carrot	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 carrot	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 carrot	det
8	carrot	carrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 root	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a root and a carrot					tree rules

Option 4

It is only a vegetable because it is not sweet like the real fruits

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	5 vegetable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 vegetable	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 vegetable	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vegetable	det
5	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 sweet	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sweet	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sweet	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 sweet	advmod
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 vegetable	advcl
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 fruits	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fruits	det
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fruits	amod
14	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sweet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a vegetable					tree rules
2	not is	present	vegetable					like the real fruits; sweet property	tree rules

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