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Test 1 · ★★ · When Grandma and Grandad need more help

Your sister says, "Uncle's got diabetes 'cause he ate too many sweets at Christmas." How do you put her right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister, Uncle, got cause, you · What happens: say, get, eat, put · To what, where: diabetes, many sweets, Christmas, sister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 23 «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» 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 sister says, "Uncle's got diabetes 'cause he ate too many sweets at Christmas."

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 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 got	aux
8	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 cause	amod
9	diabetes	diabetes	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
11	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ate	nsubj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ate	nsubj
13	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sweets	amod
16	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ate	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 Christmas	case
18	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 ate	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 ate	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your sister						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	present · passive	Uncle	diabetes					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer diabetes=Stimulus
3	eat in a quote	past	got cause	many sweets		Christmas			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=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: How do you put her right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 put	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present · do-support	you		sister			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

The options

Option 1

Diabetes comes from not eating sweets at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diabetes	diabetes	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 eating	mark
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 eating	advmod
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 comes	advcl
6	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eating	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Diabetes						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not eat	gerund	Diabetes not said here	sweets		all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient

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

Diabetes is not caused by eating a few too many sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diabetes	diabetes	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caused	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 caused	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 caused	advmod
4	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 eating	mark
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 caused	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sweets	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sweets	amod
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sweets	amod
11	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cause	present · passive		Diabetes					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	eat	gerund		a few many sweets					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient

Option 3

Diabetes is caught from other people at parties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diabetes	diabetes	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	aux:pass
3	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caught	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 parties	case
8	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caught	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present · passive	parties	Diabetes				from other people	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from people=Source

Option 4

She is right, one big Christmas causes diabetes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 causes	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Christmas	nummod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Christmas	amod
7	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 causes	nsubj
8	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
9	diabetes	diabetes	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 causes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	cause	present	one big Christmas	diabetes					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition diabetes=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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