Test 2 · ★★ · Farms and where our food comes from

Why do people in Norway buy bananas from other countries?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: buy · To what, where: bananas, other countries

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	6 buy	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 buy	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 buy	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Norway	case
5	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
6	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 buy	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 countries	case
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 countries	amod
10	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bananas	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 buy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	present · do-support	people in Norway	bananas		other countries			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent banana=Theme from country=Source

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

Norwegian bananas are too big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bananas	amod
2	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 big	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 big	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Norwegian bananas					big property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Bananas need a warm tropical climate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 climate	det
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 climate	amod
5	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 climate	amod
6	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Bananas	a warm tropical climate					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot climate=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Bananas grow only in the sea near warm beaches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 sea	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 beaches	case
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beaches	amod
9	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl

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

Option 4

Norway has no shops for fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 shops	det
4	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 fruit	case
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shops	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Norway	no shops				for fruit	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Patient

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