Test 8 · Food and farming around the world
Dad says everyone in Britain still works on farms like in the old days. Put him right.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dad, everyone, you · What happens: say, work, put · To what, where: Dad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 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: Dad says everyone in Britain still works on farms like in the old days.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 works | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Britain | case |
| 5 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 everyone | nmod |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 works | advmod |
| 7 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 farms | case |
| 9 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 works | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 days | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 farms | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | work | present | everyone | still | on farms like the old days | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=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.
Sentence 2: Put him right.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | Dad | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Only about 1 percent do, thanks to machines
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 1 | advmod |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 do | nummod |
| 4 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | compound |
| 5 | do | do | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thanks | punct |
| 7 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 machines | case |
| 9 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thanks | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About half of Britons work on farms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 half | advmod |
| 2 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 work | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Britons | case |
| 4 | Britons | briton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 half | nmod |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 farms | case |
| 7 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 work | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | half of Britons | on farms | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=Theme |
Option 3
He is right, most Britons are still farmers today
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 farmers | punct |
| 5 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 Britons | amod |
| 6 | Britons | Briton | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 farmers | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 farmers | cop |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 farmers | advmod |
| 9 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 right | parataxis |
| 10 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 right | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | today | right property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | most Britons | farmers | still | tree rules |
Option 4
Nobody at all works on farms in Britain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 works | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nobody | nmod |
| 4 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 farms | case |
| 6 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 works | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Britain | case |
| 8 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 farms | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Nobody | on farms in Britain | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=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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