Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Geography / Soil / t2

Test 2 · Soil

People cut down a rainforest to farm, but after a few years the crops fail. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: People, crops · What happens: cut down, farm, fail · To what, where: rainforest

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: People cut down a rainforest to farm, but after a few years the crops fail.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 cut	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rainforest	det
5	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 farm	mark
7	farm	farm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cut	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fail	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 fail	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	13 years	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 years	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 years	amod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fail	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 crops	det
15	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fail	nsubj
16	fail	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut down	present	People	a rainforest					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rainforest=Product
2	farm	to-infinitive	People not said here						vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fail	present	the crops				year		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

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

The soil was poor; most nutrients were in the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soil	det
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poor	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 trees	punct
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 nutrients	amod
7	nutrients	nutrient	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 trees	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 trees	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poor	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the soil					poor property	tree rules
2	is	past	most nutrients			the trees			tree rules

Option 2

The crops were scared of the jungle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crops	det
2	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scared	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 jungle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jungle	det
7	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the crops					of the jungle; scared property	tree rules

Option 3

It rained too little in the rainforest

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	2 rained	nsubj
2	rained	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rained	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 rainforest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rainforest	det
7	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	past	It	little		the rainforest			tree rules

Option 4

Rainforest soil is too rich for crops and burns their roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soil	compound
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rich	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 rich	advmod
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 crops	case
7	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rich	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 burns	cc
9	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 roots	nmod:poss
11	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 burns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Rainforest soil					for crops; rich property	tree rules
2	burn	present	Rainforest soil not said here	crops's roots					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent root=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/56-soil/t2/