Test 6 · Food and farming around the world

Why could the steppe not be farmed like France?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: not farm · To what, where: steppe

This is test 6 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	7 farmed	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 farmed	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 steppe	det
4	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 farmed	nsubj:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 farmed	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 farmed	aux:pass
7	farmed	farm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 France	case
9	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 farmed	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 farmed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not farm	could · passive		the steppe				like France	vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 soil there is made of salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soil	det
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 made	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 soil	acl:relcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 salt	case
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the soil not said here		there		of salt	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

Option 2

Steppe peoples did not know about plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peoples	compound
2	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 plants	case
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Steppe peoples					about plants	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about plant=Stimulus

Option 3

The steppe is covered in thick, dark forests that cannot be cleared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 steppe	det
2	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	aux:pass
4	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 forests	case
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 forests	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thick	punct
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 forests	amod
9	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 covered	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 cleared	nsubj:pass
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 cleared	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 cleared	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 cleared	aux:pass
14	cleared	clear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 forests	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present · passive		the steppe				in thick dark forests	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in forest=Theme
2	not clear	can · passive		thick dark forests					vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is too dry, so people herded animals over the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dry	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 dry	advmod
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 herded	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 herded	advmod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 herded	nsubj
8	herded	herd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dry	conj
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 herded	obj
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 grass	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grass	det
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 herded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					dry property	tree rules
2	herd	past	people	animals		the grass			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent animal=Patient

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