Test 12 · ★★ · Farms and where our food comes from

Leo says bananas could grow fine in a cold field in Canada. true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo, bananas · What happens: say, grow · To what, where: cold field · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ 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	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grow	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 field	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 field	det
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 field	amod
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Canada	case
12	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 grow	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Leo						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow	could	bananas			a cold field		in Canada; fine property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=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

Yes, but only in the summer months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 months	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 months	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 months	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 months	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 months	det
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 months	compound
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, bananas grow anywhere with enough rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 grow	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 rain	case
7	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rain	amod
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	bananas					with enough rain; anywhere property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, bananas grow only in warm tropical places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grow	punct
3	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 places	case
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 places	amod
8	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 places	amod
9	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obl

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

Option 4

No, bananas only grow in deserts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 bananas	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 deserts	case
7	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obl

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

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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