Test 5 · Soil and what lives in it

Why is it a problem when a flood carries away a field's topsoil?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, flood · What happens: be, carry away · To what, where: problem, topsoil

This is test 5 of lesson 63 «Soil and what lives in it» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 problem	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 problem	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 problem	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 problem	det
5	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 carries	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 flood	det
8	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carries	nsubj
9	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 problem	acl:relcl
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 carries	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 field	det
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 topsoil	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 field	case
14	topsoil	topsoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carries	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 problem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a problem					tree rules
2	carry away	present	a flood	a field's topsoil				away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent topsoil=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Plants grow only in the rock below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 rock	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 rock	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl
7	below	below	ADV	_	6 rock	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Plants			the rock			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rock=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It took hundreds of years to form and holds most of the nutrients

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hundreds	nmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 form	mark
7	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 holds	cc
9	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 holds	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 nutrients	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nutrients	det
13	nutrients	nutrient	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	past	It	hundreds of years	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme
2	form	to-infinitive			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hold	present		most of the nutrients	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme

Option 3

Topsoil is easy to make again in a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Topsoil	topsoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 easy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easy	cop
3	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easy	csubj
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 make	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 week	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 week	det
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Topsoil					easy property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive					again; week		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4

The subsoil below is much richer anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 subsoil	det
2	subsoil	subsoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 richer	nsubj
3	below	below	ADV	_	2 subsoil	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 richer	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 richer	advmod
6	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 richer	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the subsoil					anyway, rich property	tree rules

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