Test 11 · ★ · Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy

«cereal flakes just grow like that on the plant» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cereal flakes · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: plant

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 3 «Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy» 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	_	5 grow	punct
2	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flakes	compound
3	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	advcl
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 grow	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 plant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plant	det
10	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 grow	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow in a quote	present	cereal flakes			the plant		like that	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plant=Location
2	is	present						right 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 · ✓ the right answer

Cooked grains are squashed flat between heavy rollers and toasted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grains	amod
2	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 squashed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squashed	aux:pass
4	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	flat	flat	ADV	_	4 squashed	advmod
6	between	between	ADP	_	8 rollers	case
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rollers	amod
8	rollers	roller	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 squashed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 toasted	cc
10	toasted	toast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 squashed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cook	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	squash	present · passive	Cooked grains	heavy rollers	flat property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme between roller=Destination
3	toast	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Yes, flakes grow on corn stalks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 stalks	case
6	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stalks	compound
7	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	flakes			corn stalks			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stalk=Location

Option 3

Flakes are pressed from paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pressed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	aux:pass
3	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 paper	case
5	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present · passive		Flakes		paper			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Flakes are cut from popcorn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	aux:pass
3	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 popcorn	case
5	popcorn	popcorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present · passive		Flakes		popcorn			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from popcorn=Material

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