Test 6 · ★ · Deserts, rainforests and grasslands

Why is Ukraine called the breadbasket of Europe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: call · To what, where: breadbasket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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	4 called	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 called	aux:pass
3	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	compound
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 breadbasket	det
6	breadbasket	breadbasket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Europe	case
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 breadbasket	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · passive		the breadbasket of Europe					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

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

It is covered by thick tropical rainforest full of monkeys

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	3 covered	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 covered	aux:pass
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 rainforest	case
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rainforest	amod
6	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rainforest	amod
7	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covered	obl
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rainforest	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 monkeys	case
10	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present · passive	thick tropical rainforest	It					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination

Option 2

It has no winter at all

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 winter	det
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 winter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It				winter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is a desert with many oases

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	4 desert	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 desert	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 desert	det
4	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 oases	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 oases	amod
7	oases	oasis	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 desert	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a desert				with many oases	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its steppe soil is rich black chernozem, good for wheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 soil	nmod:poss
2	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soil	compound
3	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chernozem	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 chernozem	cop
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chernozem	amod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chernozem	amod
7	chernozem	chernozem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 good	punct
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chernozem	amod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 wheat	case
11	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Its steppe soil	rich black chernozem					tree rules
2	soil		Its = it						nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent

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