Test 5 · Soil

Why was Ukraine called "the breadbasket of Europe"?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: call · To what, where: breadbasket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 called	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	aux:pass
3	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	compound
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 breadbasket	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 breadbasket	det
7	breadbasket	breadbasket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Europe	case
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 breadbasket	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 breadbasket	punct
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · passive		the breadbasket of Europe					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

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

It has no soil, so wheat grows on rock

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 soil	det
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grows	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 grows	advmod
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grows	nsubj
8	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	parataxis
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 rock	case
10	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no soil					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient
2	grow	present	wheat			rock			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its black chernozem soils are among the most fertile in the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 soils	nmod:poss
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soils	amod
3	chernozem	chernozem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soils	compound
4	soils	soil	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fertile	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fertile	cop
6	among	among	ADP	_	9 fertile	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fertile	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 fertile	advmod
9	fertile	fertile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fertile	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its black chernozem soils			the world		fertile property	tree rules
2	soil		Its = it						nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

It is covered in 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	3 covered	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 covered	aux:pass
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 rainforest	case
5	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present · passive		It				in rainforest	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in rainforest=Theme

Option 4

It has the most rain in the world

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rain	det
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 rain	amod
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rain	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	the most rain		the world			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Patient

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