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Test 5 · ★★ · Farms and where our food comes from

A farmer grows wheat in the same field year after year and the harvest gets smaller. What could help?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: farmer, harvest · What happens: grow, get, help · To what, where: wheat

This is test 5 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A farmer grows wheat in the same field year after year and the harvest gets smaller.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 year	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 year	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
8	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 year	compound
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 year	case
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 year	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gets	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 harvest	det
14	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gets	nsubj
15	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grows	conj
16	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 gets	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	a farmer	wheat			year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheat=Theme
2	get	present	the harvest					small property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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.

Sentence 2: What could help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 help	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	could							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Ploughing the field twice a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ploughing	plough	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 field	det
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ploughing	obj
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Ploughing	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ploughing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plough	gerund		the field			day	twice property	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial_Location

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

Growing a different crop in turn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crop	det
3	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crop	amod
4	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Growing	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 turn	case
6	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund		a different crop		turn			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crop=Theme

Option 3

Watering only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watering	water	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 night	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	water	gerund					night		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Planting the wheat closer together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Planting	plant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wheat	det
3	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Planting	obj
4	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Planting	advmod
5	together	together	ADV	_	1 Planting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	gerund		the wheat				close, together property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=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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