Test 1 · ★ · Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things

Why does keeping bread in the freezer stop mould?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: keep · To what, where: bread, stop mould

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 77 «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» 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	3 keeping	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keeping	aux
3	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeping	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 mould	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mould	det
7	freezer	freezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stop	compound
8	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mould	compound
9	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeping	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 keeping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support		bread		the stop mould			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bread=Theme in mould=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The cold slows the fungus almost to a stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slows	nsubj
3	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fungus	det
5	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slows	obj
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	9 stop	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 stop	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stop	det
9	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow	present	the cold	the fungus				to a stop	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fungus=Patient

Option 2

Mould only grows in sunlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 grows	advmod
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 sunlight	case
5	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obl

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

Option 3

The cold kills all the flour so there is nothing left to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kills	nsubj
3	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 flour	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flour	det
6	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kills	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 is	advmod
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kills	advcl
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 is	nsubj
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 nothing	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	kill	present	the cold	all flour		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Theme
2	be	present	nothing		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	participle				tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Freezers make bread poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freezers	freezer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

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

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