Test 3 · Food and farming around the world

Why was relying on one crop so dangerous for Ireland?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: rely

This is test 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 relying	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 relying	aux
3	relying	rely	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 crop	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 crop	nummod
6	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 relying	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 dangerous	advmod
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 relying	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 Ireland	case
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dangerous	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 relying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rely	past · progressive						on one crop	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on crop=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice

Other crops were illegal in Ireland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 crops	amod
2	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 illegal	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 illegal	cop
4	illegal	illegal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Ireland	case
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 illegal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Other crops			Ireland		illegal property	tree rules

Option 2

Potatoes cannot grow in rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 grow	advmod
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 rain	case
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	can	Potatoes			rain			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rain=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

One disease could wipe out almost all the food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 disease	nummod
2	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wipe	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wipe	aux
4	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 wipe	compound:prt
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 all	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 food	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 food	det
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wipe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe out	could	One disease	all food					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 4

Potatoes give no energy at all, so people grew weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 energy	det
4	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 give	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 grew	advmod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grew	nsubj
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 give	conj
11	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grew	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Potatoes	no energy		all			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent energy=Theme at all=Asset
2	grow	past	people					weak property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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