Test 1 · Soil

kid at school: "soil's just dead dirt, nothing lives in it lol" — what's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nothing, kid · What happens: live, be · To what, where: dirt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 56 «Soil» 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	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 true	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 school	case
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kid	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 dirt	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 dirt	punct
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dirt	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 soil	case
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 dead	advmod
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dirt	amod
10	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kid	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lives	punct
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 lives	nsubj
13	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dirt	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lives	obl
16	lol	lol	INTJ	_	13 lives	discourse
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 lol	punct
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 true	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 true	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 true	cop
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	present	nothing			dirt			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
2	is	present	kid at school and soil's dead dirt					true property	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

Soil only lives in spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 lives	advmod
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 spring	case
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Soil				spring		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A handful of healthy soil has more living things than people on Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 handful	det
2	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 soil	case
4	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soil	amod
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handful	nmod
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 things	amod
8	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 people	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 things	nmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 Earth	case
13	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a handful of healthy soil	more living things				than people on Earth	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

Option 3

Only worms live in soil, nothing else at all, and only a handful of them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 worms	advmod
2	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 soil	case
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 soil	conj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 nothing	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 nothing	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 handful	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 handful	cc
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 handful	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 handful	det
15	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 handful	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	worms	a handful of them		soil			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location

Option 4

He's right, soil is lifeless

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	's	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	_	7 lifeless	punct
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifeless	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lifeless	cop
7	lifeless	lifeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	is	present	soil					lifeless property	tree rules

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