Exam question 4 · Farms and where our food comes from

Ascertain the conditions under which rice grows best.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, rice · What happens: ascertain, grow · To what, where: conditions

This is exam question 4 of lesson 80 «Farms and where our food comes from» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 conditions	det
3	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	7 grows	mark
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 rice	det
6	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grows	nsubj
7	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 conditions	advcl
8	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 grows	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the conditions					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Topic
2	grow	present	which rice					well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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

Frozen ground beneath the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ground	amod
2	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	5 snow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snow	det
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ground	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Cold, dry fields upon high mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fields	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Cold	punct
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fields	amod
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 mountains	case
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mountains	amod
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fields	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Sandy deserts with little water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sandy	Sandy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 deserts	compound
2	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 deserts	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Warm, wet fields that are often flooded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fields	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Warm	punct
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fields	amod
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 flooded	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 flooded	aux:pass
7	often	often	ADV	_	8 flooded	advmod
8	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fields	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	present · passive		Warm wet fields				often property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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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