Test 4 · Food and farming around the world

In the game, sugar is just a pricey trade good from the Caribbean. What does that leave out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: game sugar, that · What happens: be, leave out · To what, where: pricey trade

This is test 4 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: In the game, sugar is just a pricey trade good from the Caribbean.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 game	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sugar	compound
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 game	punct
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trade	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 trade	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 trade	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 trade	det
9	pricey	pricey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trade	amod
10	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trade	amod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 Caribbean	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Caribbean	det
14	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 good	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 trade	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	game sugar	a pricey trade					tree rules

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: What does that leave out?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 leave	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 leave	nsubj
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 leave	compound:prt
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	present · do-support	that						vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sugar was grown by well-paid workers who chose to sail out from Europe

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grown	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grown	aux:pass
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 workers	case
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 paid	advmod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 well	punct
7	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 workers	amod
8	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grown	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 chose	nsubj
10	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 workers	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sail	mark
12	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 chose	xcomp
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 sail	compound:prt
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 Europe	case
15	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sail	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past · passive	paid workers	Sugar			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
2	pay	participle				well property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	choose	past	paid workers				tree rules
4	sail out	to-infinitive	paid workers not said here		Europe		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from europe=Trajectory

Option 2

Sugar grew wild and nobody had to work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 work	mark
8	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Sugar	wild property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	nobody		tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	nobody not said here		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sugar was grown by enslaved Africans in brutal conditions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grown	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grown	aux:pass
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Africans	case
5	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Africans	amod
6	Africans	African	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 grown	obl:agent
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 conditions	case
8	brutal	brutal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 conditions	amod
9	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · passive	enslaved Africans	Sugar		brutal conditions			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
2	enslave	participle							vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Sugar came only from Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 Europe	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Europe	case
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Sugar			Europe			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from europe=Initial_Location

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