Test 12 · Food and farming around the world
The port of Mocha in Yemen gave its name to a coffee drink. Why there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: port · What happens: give, name · To what, where: name, coffee drink
This is test 12 of lesson 26 «Food and farming around the world» of the geography 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: The port of Mocha in Yemen gave its name to a coffee drink.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 port | det |
| 2 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Mocha | case |
| 4 | Mocha | Mocha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 port | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Yemen | case |
| 6 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mocha | nmod |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 drink | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 drink | det |
| 12 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drink | compound |
| 13 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the port of Mocha in Yemen | port's name | a coffee drink | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to drink=Recipient | |||
| 2 | name | port | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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 there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 1 Why | expl |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yemen is where tea comes from
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 comes | cop |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 comes | advmod |
| 4 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Yemen | come property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Coffee was first drunk widely in Yemen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drunk | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drunk | aux:pass |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 drunk | advmod |
| 4 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 4 drunk | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Yemen | case |
| 7 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 drunk | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past · passive | Coffee | Yemen | first, widely property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3
Mocha was where coffee was invented in a factory
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mocha | Mocha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 invented | aux:pass |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 invented | advmod |
| 4 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 invented | aux:pass |
| 6 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 factory | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 factory | det |
| 9 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 invented | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | past · passive | Mocha | a factory | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
Option 4
Coffee was first grown in Italy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | aux:pass |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 grown | advmod |
| 4 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Italy | case |
| 6 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · passive | Coffee | Italy | first property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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