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Test 8 · Life cycles

Dry beans have been kept in a jar for a year without growing. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: keep, grow · To what, where: Dry beans, jar

This is test 8 of lesson 25 «Life cycles» of the world 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: Dry beans have been kept in a jar for a year without growing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 beans	amod
2	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 kept	aux:pass
5	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 jar	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 jar	det
8	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 year	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 growing	mark
13	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 kept	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · perfect · passive		Dry beans		a jar	year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in jar=Location
2	grow	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They had no garden soil

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 soil	det
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soil	compound
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	no garden soil					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient

Option 2

They had no sunlight

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sunlight	det
4	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	no sunlight					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They had no water

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	no water					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 4

They had no fertiliser

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 fertiliser	det
4	fertiliser	fertiliser	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	no fertiliser					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fertiliser=Patient

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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