Test 3 · ★ · The first farms and towns

If farmers had no pots, what problem would they have?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: farmers, problem · What happens: have · To what, where: pots

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 pots	det
5	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 have	obj
8	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pots	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	farmers	no pots					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient
2	have	would	problem	no pots					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Storing grain and water would be hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Storing	store	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 hard	csubj
2	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Storing	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 water	cc
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grain	conj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hard	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 hard	cop
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	gerund		grain and water					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme
2	is	would	Storing					hard property	tree rules

Option 2

They could not plant seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 plant	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 plant	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 plant	advmod
4	plant	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plant	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not plant	could	They	seeds					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient

Option 3

They could not walk to the fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walk	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 walk	advmod
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 fields	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fields	det
7	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not walk	could	They					to the fields result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to field=Result

Option 4

Their dogs would run away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dogs	nmod:poss
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	would	Their dogs					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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