Test 2 · We're having a baby!
Your brother says, "Morning sickness means Mum ate something bad at breakfast." Put him right.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, Morning sickness, Mum, you · What happens: say, mean, eat, put · To what, where: something, breakfast, sickness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 of lesson 18 «We're having a baby!» of the adult life 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: Your brother says, "Morning sickness means Mum ate something bad at breakfast."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 6 | Morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sickness | compound |
| 7 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 9 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ate | nsubj |
| 10 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | ccomp |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 ate | obj |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 something | amod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 breakfast | case |
| 14 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ate | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | Morning sickness | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | past | Mum | something | breakfast | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
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: Put him right.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | sickness | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It means she caught it from you
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 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | catch | past | she | it | from you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from you=Source |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It is sickness from early pregnancy, at any time
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 | 3 sickness | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sickness | cop |
| 3 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 pregnancy | case |
| 5 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pregnancy | amod |
| 6 | pregnancy | pregnancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sickness | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sickness | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | sickness and any time | early pregnancy | tree rules |
Option 3
He is right, it is food poisoning from the eggs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 poisoning | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 poisoning | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 poisoning | cop |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poisoning | compound |
| 8 | poisoning | poisoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 right | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 eggs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eggs | det |
| 11 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 poisoning | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | food poisoning | the eggs | tree rules |
Option 4
He is right, she should skip breakfast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 skip | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 skip | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 skip | aux |
| 7 | skip | skip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 right | parataxis |
| 8 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 skip | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | skip | should | she | breakfast | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Agent |
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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