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Test 8 · Soil and what lives in it

A pupil puts banana peel and a plastic bag in a compost heap. After some months, what will he find?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pupil · What happens: put, find · To what, where: banana peel, compost heap

This is test 8 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

Sentence 1: A pupil puts banana peel and a plastic bag in a compost heap.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	nsubj
3	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 peel	compound
5	peel	peel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bag	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bag	det
8	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bag	amod
9	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 peel	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 heap	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 heap	det
12	compost	compost	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heap	compound
13	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 puts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present	a pupil	banana peel and a plastic bag		a compost heap			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent peel=Theme in heap=Destination

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: After some months, what will he find?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 months	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 months	det
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 find	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 find	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 find	obj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	nsubj
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	future	pupil				month		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Both are exactly as they were

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 exactly	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 exactly	cop
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 were	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 were	nsubj
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 exactly	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Both					exactly property	tree rules
2	be	past	they						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The peel has rotted away but the bag is still there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 peel	det
2	peel	peel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rotted	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rotted	aux
4	rotted	rot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 rotted	advmod
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 bag	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bag	det
8	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rotted	conj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 there	cop
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 there	advmod
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 rotted	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot away	present · perfect · passive		the peel				away property	tree rules
2	is	present					still	there property	tree rules

Option 3

Both have rotted away into humus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 rotted	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rotted	aux
3	rotted	rot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 rotted	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 humus	case
6	humus	humus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rotted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot away	present · perfect · passive		Both		humus		away property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The bag has rotted but the peel is still there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rotted	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rotted	aux
4	rotted	rot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 there	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peel	det
7	peel	peel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 there	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 there	cop
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 there	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 rotted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	present · perfect · passive		the bag					tree rules
2	is	present	the peel				still	there property	tree rules

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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