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Test 6 · ★ · Leaves, fruit and colour in nature

Your green tomatoes won't ripen. "stick 'em in a bag with a banana", says Nan. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: green tomatoes, Nan · What happens: not ripen, stick, say · To what, where: 'em, bag · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 28 «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» 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

Sentence 1: Your green tomatoes won't ripen. "stick 'em in a bag with a banana", says Nan.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tomatoes	nmod:poss
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tomatoes	amod
3	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ripen	nsubj
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ripen	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ripen	advmod
6	ripen	ripen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ripen	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 stick	punct
9	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ripen	conj
10	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stick	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 bag	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bag	det
13	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stick	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 banana	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 banana	det
16	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stick	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 stick	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ripen	parataxis
20	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 says	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ripen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ripen	future	Your green tomatoes						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stick in a quote	infinitive	Your green tomatoes not said here	'em = they		a bag		with a banana	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with banana=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	Nan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The banana keeps them in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 banana	det
2	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keeps	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dark	det
7	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the banana	them = they		the dark			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in dark=Location

Option 2

The banana's yellow rubs onto them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 banana	det
2	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rubs	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 banana	case
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rubs	amod
5	rubs	rub	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	onto	onto	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rubs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub			the banana				onto rubs = rub	nom rub «cognition transitive»: poss=patient onto=obl

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The banana's ethylene gas speeds ripening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 banana	det
2	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gas	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 banana	case
4	ethylene	ethylene	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gas	compound
5	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speeds	nsubj
6	speeds	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	ripening	ripen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 speeds	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speed	present	the banana's ethylene gas						tree rules
2	ripen	gerund	the banana's ethylene gas not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The banana's sugar slowly soaks into the tomatoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 banana	det
2	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sugar	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 banana	case
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soaks	nsubj
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 soaks	advmod
6	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 tomatoes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tomatoes	det
9	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 soaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak	present	the banana's sugar			the tomatoes		slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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