Test 1 · ★★ · Resources and what countries trade

Why does Britain import bananas?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Britain · What happens: import · To what, where: bananas

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Resources and what countries trade» 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	4 import	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 import	aux
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 import	nsubj
4	import	import	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 import	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 import	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	import	present · do-support	Britain	bananas					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=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 · ✓ the right answer

Bananas need a tropical climate that Britain lacks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 climate	det
4	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 climate	amod
5	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lacks	nsubj
7	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lacks	nsubj
8	lacks	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 climate	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Bananas	a tropical climate					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot climate=Theme
2	lack	present	a tropical climate						tree rules

Option 2

Bananas in Britain grow only in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Britain	case
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bananas	nmod
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Bananas in Britain				winter		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

British bananas are too big to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bananas	amod
2	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 big	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 big	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 big	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	British bananas					big property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	British bananas not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Britain bans growing bananas by law to protect the farmers of its old colonies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bans	nsubj
2	bans	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 bananas	amod
4	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bans	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 law	case
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bans	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 protect	mark
8	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bans	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 farmers	det
10	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 protect	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 colonies	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 colonies	nmod:poss
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 colonies	amod
14	colonies	colony	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 farmers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ban	present	Britain	growing bananas		by law	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer banana=Theme
2	grow	gerund					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	protect	to-infinitive	Britain not said here		the farmers of law's old colonies		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Beneficiary

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