Test 4 · ★ · Native peoples of North America

If corn, beans and squash had never been shared with the world, what might be missing today?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: world · What happens: not share, be · To what, where: corn

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 17 «Native peoples of North America» of the history 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	10 shared	mark
2	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shared	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 beans	punct
4	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 corn	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 squash	cc
6	squash	squash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 corn	conj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shared	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 shared	advmod
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 shared	aux:pass
10	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shared	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 missing	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 missing	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 missing	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 missing	cop
18	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 world	acl:relcl
19	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 missing	obl:unmarked
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 shared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not share	past · perfect · passive		corn and beans and squash				with the world	tree rules
2	is	might	the world				today	missing 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

All the wheat that grows in Europe and Russia today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 wheat	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wheat	det
3	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 grows	nsubj
5	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wheat	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Europe	case
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 grows	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Russia	cc
9	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Europe	conj
10	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grows	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	all wheat			Europe and Russia	today		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in europe=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Corn and other foods that now feed the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 foods	cc
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 foods	amod
4	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Corn	conj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 feed	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 feed	advmod
7	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Corn	appos
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present		that			now		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient world=Theme

Option 3

Rice in China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 China	case
3	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Rice	nmod

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

Option 4

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

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

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