Test 7 · Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast

ew, mate cut the green bit off the bread and ate the rest. fine yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: cut, eat · To what, where: green bit, rest

This is test 7 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ew	ew	INTJ	Number=Sing	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ew	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bit	amod
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 bread	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bread	det
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ate	cc
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rest	det
14	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ate	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
16	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cut	conj
17	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cut	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	mate	the green bit				off the bread	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bit=Patient off bread=Co-Patient
2	eat	past	mate not said here	the rest					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient

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

Yes, mould only ever lives on the outside, so cutting it off is fine

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 mould	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lives	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 lives	advmod
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 lives	advmod
6	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fine	parataxis
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 outside	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 outside	det
9	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lives	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fine	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	16 fine	advmod
12	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 fine	csubj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cutting	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	12 cutting	compound:prt
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fine	cop
16	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	mould		the outside	ever		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on outside=Location
2	cut off	gerund		mould				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality
3	is	present	cutting				fine property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, toasting it removes all mould

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 toasting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	toasting	toast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 removes	csubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 toasting	obj
5	removes	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 mould	det
7	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 removes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toast	gerund		it					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	remove	present	toasting	all mould					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mould=Theme

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

Better not, the mould's threads can reach far inside the bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 not	advmod
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 reach	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 not	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mould	det
5	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threads	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 mould	case
7	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reach	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 reach	aux
9	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 reach	advmod
11	inside	inside	ADP	_	13 bread	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bread	det
13	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reach	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	can	the mould's threads			the bread		far property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, mould is just a vitamin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 vitamin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vitamin	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 vitamin	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 vitamin	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 vitamin	det
7	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	mould	a vitamin					tree rules

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