Test 9 · Food and farming around the world

Why does farming in deserts need irrigation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deserts · What happens: do, need · To what, where: farming, irrigation

This is test 9 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	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl
3	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 deserts	case
5	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	parataxis
7	irrigation	irrigation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		farming					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farming=Eventuality
2	need	present	deserts	irrigation					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot irrigation=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

Desert crops need salt water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crops	compound
2	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Desert crops	salt water					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

There is too little rain to water the crops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rain	amod
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 water	mark
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rain	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crops	det
9	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 is	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	little rain and water			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Desert sun makes plants grow too fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sun	compound
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Desert sun	plants				fast property	tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	plants not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Irrigation keeps animals off the fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Irrigation	irrigation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeps	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 fields	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fields	det
6	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Irrigation	animals				off the fields	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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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