Test 7 · Coffee, tea, wine and the pub

Ellie: "Mum's doing Dry January so she must be an alcoholic." Is Ellie right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, Ellie · What happens: do, be · To what, where: Ellie, alcoholic

This is test 7 of lesson 27 «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» 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: Ellie: "Mum's doing Dry January so she must be an alcoholic."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ellie	acl
7	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 January	amod
8	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	14 alcoholic	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 alcoholic	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 alcoholic	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 alcoholic	cop
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 alcoholic	det
14	alcoholic	alcoholic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 alcoholic	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 alcoholic	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · progressive	Mum	Ellie not said here			january		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ellie=Eventuality
2	is a in a quote	must	Mum	a alcoholic					tree rules

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: Is Ellie right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, the doctor makes alcoholics do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	alcoholics	alcoholic	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 makes	obj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 makes	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the doctor	alcoholics					tree rules
2	do	infinitive	alcoholics not said here	doctor					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, many people do it to feel healthier and take a break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 feel	aux
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 feel	mark
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	healthier	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 feel	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 take	cc
11	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 feel	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 break	det
13	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present · do-support						healthy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	take	infinitive		a break					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme

Option 3

Yes, only alcoholics stop drinking for a month, everyone else carries on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 alcoholics	advmod
4	alcoholics	alcoholic	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	nsubj
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 month	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 month	det
9	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drinking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 carries	punct
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 carries	nsubj
12	else	else	ADV	_	11 everyone	advmod
13	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 carries	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	stop	present	alcoholics		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	drink	gerund	alcoholics not said here	month	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	carry on	present	everyone		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent

Option 4

No, it is a month when you cannot drink water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 month	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 month	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 month	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 month	det
6	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 drink	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 drink	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 drink	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 drink	advmod
11	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 month	advcl
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a month					tree rules
2	not drink	can	you	water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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