Test 9 · Soil
A farmer's field grows weaker every year. What does she most likely add?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: field · What happens: grow, add
This is test 9 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: A farmer's field grows weaker every year.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 field | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 farmer | case |
| 4 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grows | nsubj |
| 5 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 grows | xcomp |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grows | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | a farmer's field | year | weak property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: What does she most likely add?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 add | obl |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 add | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 add | nsubj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 6 add | advmod |
| 6 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 add | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present · do-support | field | likely property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Fertiliser with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fertiliser | fertiliser | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 nitrogen | case |
| 3 | nitrogen | nitrogen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fertiliser | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 phosphorus | punct |
| 5 | phosphorus | phosphorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fertiliser | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 potassium | cc |
| 7 | potassium | potassium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fertiliser | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sand from the beach only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 beach | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beach | det |
| 4 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sand | nmod |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 beach | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nothing, since soil never runs out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 runs | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | since | since | ADP | _ | 4 soil | case |
| 4 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 runs | advmod |
| 6 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 runs | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run out | present | Nothing | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Pure salt from the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 salt | amod |
| 2 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 salt | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
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