Test 10 · ★ · Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things

why'd the bread go all fuzzy and green

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bread · What happens: go

This is test 10 · ★ 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	5 go	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bread	det
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fuzzy	advcl
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 fuzzy	advmod
7	fuzzy	fuzzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 green	cc
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fuzzy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the bread						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Germs in the air painted it green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 painted	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 air	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Germs	nmod
5	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 painted	obj
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 painted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past	Germs in the air	air				green property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination

Option 2

The flour went bad and grew grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flour	det
2	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grew	cc
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the flour					bad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the flour not said here	grass					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grass=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Mould, a fungus, grew on it from tiny spores

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fungus	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fungus	det
4	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mould	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mould	punct
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grew	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 spores	case
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spores	amod
11	spores	spore	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Mould and a fungus			fungus		from tiny spores	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location

Option 4

The bread turned green as it dried out on the shelf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bread	det
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turned	xcomp
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 dried	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dried	nsubj
7	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 dried	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 shelf	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shelf	det
11	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the bread					green property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	dry out	past	bread			the shelf			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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