Test 11 · ★★ · Farms and where our food comes from

why do farmers grow different stuff in the same field each year

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: farmers · What happens: grow · To what, where: different stuff, same field

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 80 «Farms and where our food comes from» 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 grow	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stuff	amod
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 field	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 field	amod
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · do-support	farmers	different stuff		the same field	year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stuff=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

It stops the rain from washing seeds away

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 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rain	det
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 washing	mark
6	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stops	advcl
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 washing	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 washing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	the rain					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality rain=Eventuality
2	wash away	gerund		seeds				away property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It keeps the soil healthy

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 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soil	det
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	the soil				healthy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme

Option 3

It makes the field easier to plough

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 field	det
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 plough	mark
7	plough	plough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the field				easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material field=Product
2	plough	to-infinitive	the field not said here						vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It confuses the birds that eat crops

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 confuses	nsubj
2	confuses	confuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 confuses	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 eat	nsubj
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 birds	acl:relcl
7	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confuse	present	It	the birds					vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	eat	present	the birds	crops					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=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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