Test 2 · Chocolate and sweets

«my sis says chocolate grows on trees as bars lol» What is the true version?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sis, chocolate · What happens: say, grow, be · To what, where: trees, true version · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 2 «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology 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	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sis	nmod:poss
3	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grows	nsubj
6	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 trees	case
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grows	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 bars	case
10	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grows	obl
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	17 version	discourse
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 lol	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 version	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 version	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 version	det
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 version	amod
17	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grows	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my sis				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow in a quote	present	chocolate		trees	as bars	tree rules
3	is a	present		the true version			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 · ✓ the right answer

Cocoa beans grow in pods on trees, and factories turn them into bars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beans	compound
2	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 pods	case
5	pods	pod	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 trees	case
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pods	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turn	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 turn	cc
10	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turn	nsubj
11	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 turn	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 bars	case
14	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Cocoa beans			pods on trees			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pod=Location
2	turn	present	factories	beans = bean		bars			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into bar=Trajectory

Option 2

Chocolate comes from the milk of brown cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 milk	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 milk	det
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 cows	case
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cows	amod
8	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 milk	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Chocolate			the milk of brown cows			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from milk=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Chocolate is dug out of mines deep under the ground and then cut into bars

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dug	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dug	aux:pass
3	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 mines	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mines	case
6	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dug	obl
7	deep	deep	ADV	_	10 ground	advmod
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dug	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cut	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 cut	advmod
13	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dug	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 bars	case
15	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig out	present · passive		Chocolate		mines		under the ground	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary mine=Result
2	cut	participle					then	into bars	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into bar=Patient

Option 4

Yes, bars hang on cocoa trees ready to pick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 hang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hang	nsubj
4	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 trees	case
6	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trees	compound
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hang	obl
8	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hang	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 pick	mark
10	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ready	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	present	bars			cocoa trees		ready property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location
2	pick	to-infinitive	bars not said here						vn chew-39.2 «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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