Test 7 · Soil and what lives in it

Which one does the most to keep soil airy and well drained in a garden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: one · What happens: do, keep, drain · To what, where: most, soil, garden

This is test 7 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 most	det
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 does	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 most	advcl
8	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
9	airy	airy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 drained	cc
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 drained	advmod
12	drained	drain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 airy	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 garden	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 garden	det
15	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drained	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present	which one	the most			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality
2	keep	to-infinitive	which one not said here	soil		airy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme
3	drain	participle	which one not said here		a garden	well property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source

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

Earthworms digging tunnels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Earthworms	earthworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Earthworms	acl
3	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 digging	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	gerund	Earthworms not said here	tunnels					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tunnel=Theme

Option 2

Snails eating leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Snails	acl
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund	Snails not said here	leaves					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 3

Bees visiting flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Bees	acl
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 visiting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	gerund	Bees not said here	flowers					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent

Option 4

Birds pulling up worms to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worms	nsubj
2	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 worms	amod
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 pulling	compound:prt
4	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 worms	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull up	gerund							vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «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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