Test 1 · ★★ · Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests

"talk to my tomatoes every day and they're massive, so it works innit" What's the problem with this proof?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, tomatoes, it · What happens: talk, be, work · To what, where: innit, problem

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 tomatoes	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tomatoes	nmod:poss
5	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talk	obl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 massive	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 massive	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 massive	cop
11	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 works	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 works	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 works	nsubj
15	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	parataxis
16	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 works	obj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 problem	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 problem	obj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 problem	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 problem	det
21	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 works	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 proof	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 proof	det
24	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 problem	nmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk in a quote	imperative	you not said here		day	to my tomatoes	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to tomato=Co-Agent
2	is in a quote	present	tomatoes = tomato			massive property	tree rules
3	work in a quote	present	it	innit			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent innit=Material
4	is a	present		the problem		with this proof	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 · ✓ the right answer

There's no untalked-to tray to compare with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 's	expl
2	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 tray	det
4	untalked	untalked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tray	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 untalked	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tray	mark
7	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 's	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 compare	mark
9	compare	compare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tray	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	9 compare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no untalked tray			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	compare	to-infinitive	no untalked tray not said here						vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Tomatoes can't be grown in pots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grown	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grown	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 grown	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 grown	aux:pass
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 pots	case
7	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	can · passive		Tomatoes		pots			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

It proves that talking works on every single plant

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 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 works	mark
4	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 works	nsubj
5	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 proves	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 plant	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 plant	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plant	amod
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	talk	gerund			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	work	present		on every single plant	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on plant=Theme

Option 4

The tomatoes might be the wrong colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tomatoes	det
2	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 colour	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 colour	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 colour	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colour	det
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 colour	amod
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	might	the tomatoes	the wrong colour					tree rules

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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