Test 3 · Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast
My grandad picked some plain white mushrooms in the field, they look fine innit. Safe?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandad, mushrooms · What happens: pick, look · To what, where: plain white mushrooms, field, fine innit
This is test 3 of lesson 62 «Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast» 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
Sentence 1: My grandad picked some plain white mushrooms in the field, they look fine innit.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 mushrooms | det |
| 5 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mushrooms | amod |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mushrooms | amod |
| 7 | mushrooms | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 picked | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 field | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 look | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 look | nsubj |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | advcl |
| 14 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 innit | amod |
| 15 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | past | My grandad | some plain white mushrooms | the field | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Patient | |||
| 2 | look | present | mushrooms = mushroom | fine innit | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme innit=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.
Sentence 2: Safe?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Safe | safe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Safe | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Yes, white ones are always safe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 safe | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ones | amod |
| 4 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 safe | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 safe | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 safe | advmod |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | white ones | always, safe property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Not unless an expert checks them, as deadly ones can look plain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 checks | advmod |
| 2 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 5 checks | mark |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 expert | det |
| 4 | expert | expert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 checks | nsubj |
| 5 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 checks | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 9 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ones | amod |
| 10 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 look | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | aux |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 checks | advcl |
| 13 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 look | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not check | present | a expert | them = they | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | can | deadly ones | plain property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
Yes, if they smell nice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 smell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 smell | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 smell | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 smell | nsubj |
| 5 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 smell | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | present | they | nice property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
Yes, the poisonous ones are always brightly coloured to warn you off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 coloured | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ones | det |
| 4 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ones | amod |
| 5 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 coloured | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 coloured | aux:pass |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 coloured | advmod |
| 8 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 9 coloured | advmod |
| 9 | coloured | colour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 warn | mark |
| 11 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 coloured | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 warn | obj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 warn | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | colour | present · passive | the poisonous ones | always, brightly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | warn off speech: warn | to-infinitive | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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