Test 8 · ★ · The spice trade and the Indian Ocean

why's pepper so cheap now if it was like gold back then

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pepper · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 29 «The spice trade and the Indian Ocean» 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=Rel	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 why	case
3	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 cheap	advmod
5	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pepper	appos
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 cheap	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 gold	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gold	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gold	cop
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 gold	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cheap	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 gold	advmod
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 why	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	pepper					like gold	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is grown and shipped in huge amounts now

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	3 grown	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grown	aux:pass
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shipped	cc
5	shipped	ship	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grown	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 amounts	case
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 amounts	amod
8	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shipped	obl
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 grown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · passive		It			now		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	ship	participle				huge amounts			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is made in factories from sand

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	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 factories	case
5	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 sand	case
7	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 factories	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		It		factories from sand			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

Old pepper was a different spice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pepper	amod
2	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spice	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spice	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spice	det
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spice	amod
6	spice	spice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Old pepper	a different spice					tree rules

Option 4

Pepper has lost almost all its taste over the years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 all	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 taste	det:predet
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 taste	nmod:poss
7	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 years	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 years	det
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · perfect · passive		Pepper			year		tree rules
2	taste		Pepper						nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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