Test 13 · ★ · Food chains and food webs

Mia reckons the energy in food chains comes from the soil. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia · What happens: reckon, come · To what, where: energy, food chains

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 26 «Food chains and food webs» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 energy	det
4	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 chains	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chains	compound
7	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 comes	obl
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckons	parataxis
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 soil	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soil	det
11	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comes	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckons	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Mia	the energy					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent energy=Attribute
2	come	present				food chains		from the soil	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from soil=Initial_Location

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

Yes, plants get their energy from soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 energy	nmod:poss
6	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 soil	case
8	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	plants	plants's energy		soil			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent energy=Theme from soil=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, it comes first from the animals at the top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 comes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 comes	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 animals	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 comes	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 top	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 top	det
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	it			the top		from the animals; first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from animal=Initial_Location

Option 3

Yes, decomposers make all the energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	decomposers	decomposer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 energy	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 energy	det
7	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	decomposers	all energy					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset energy=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, almost all of it comes first from the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 comes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 all	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 comes	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 all	nmod
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 comes	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 Sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sun	det
11	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	all			the Sun		first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sun=Initial_Location

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