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Test 2 · ★ · The first farms and towns

A town grows so much food that half the people do not need to farm. What happens?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: town, people, much food · What happens: grow, not need, farm, happen · To what, where: much food

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2 «The first farms and towns» 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

Sentence 1: A town grows so much food that half the people do not need to farm.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 need	obj
8	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	10 people	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 need	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 need	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 need	advmod
13	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 food	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 farm	mark
15	farm	farm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 need	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	a town	much food					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme
2	not need	present · do-support	half people	much food					tree rules
3	farm not said to happen	to-infinitive	much food not said here						vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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: What happens?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

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

Some people take other jobs like potter or builder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	nsubj
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 jobs	amod
5	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 potter	case
7	potter	potter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 builder	cc
9	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 potter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	some people	other jobs				like potter or builder	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme

Option 2

All the people move back to hunting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 people	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 move	nsubj
4	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 move	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 hunting	case
7	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move back	present	all people			hunting			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to hunting=Trajectory

Option 3

The extra food is thrown into the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 food	det
2	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 food	amod
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thrown	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thrown	aux:pass
5	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	present · passive		the extra food				into the sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into sea=Result

Option 4

Everyone stops eating so much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stops	xcomp
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	2 stops	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Everyone						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	Everyone not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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