Test 6 · ★★ · Farms and where our food comes from

How can a farmer in a cold country grow tomatoes in early spring?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: grow · To what, where: tomatoes

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 grow	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 grow	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 country	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 country	det
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 country	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 farmer	nmod
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grow	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 spring	case
12	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 spring	amod
13	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	can	a farmer in a cold country	tomatoes			spring		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tomato=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

In a flooded rice field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 field	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 field	det
3	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 field	amod
4	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 field	compound
5	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

In a heated greenhouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 greenhouse	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 greenhouse	det
3	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 greenhouse	amod
4	greenhouse	greenhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

In a snowy field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 field	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 field	det
3	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 field	amod
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

In a deep, dark cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	6 cellar	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cellar	det
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cellar	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 deep	punct
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cellar	amod
6	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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