Test 9 · ★ · Browning apples, rotting and mould

Why might a banana go brown faster in the fruit bowl next to other ripe fruit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: banana · What happens: go · To what, where: fruit bowl

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 23 «Browning apples, rotting and mould» of the chemistry 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	5 go	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 banana	det
4	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 faster	amod
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 go	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 bowl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bowl	det
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bowl	compound
11	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
12	next	next	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 fruit	case
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fruit	amod
15	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fruit	amod
16	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 next	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	might	a banana			the fruit bowl		fast, next property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bowl=Location

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

The bowl keeps the banana too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bowl	det
2	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 banana	det
5	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 cold	advmod
7	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 bowl	the banana				cold property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Theme

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

Ripe fruit gives off ethylene gas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fruit	amod
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 gives	compound:prt
5	ethylene	ethylene	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gas	compound
6	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give off	present	Ripe fruit	ethylene gas					vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source gas=Theme

Option 3

Other fruit pushes the banana's skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fruit	amod
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	nsubj
3	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 banana	det
5	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skin	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 banana	case
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	Other fruit	the banana's skin					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme

Option 4

Bananas hate being near apples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 near	cop
4	near	near	ADP	_	5 apples	case
5	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	Bananas			apples			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

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