Test 10 · Screens, diets, sofas and late nights
Cousin Tom says "Eating cake makes you naughty." What should you tell him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cousin, you · What happens: say, eat, make, tell · To what, where: cake, you, Cousin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 of lesson 29 «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» 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: Cousin Tom says "Eating cake makes you naughty."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cousin | appos |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Eating | punct |
| 5 | Eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 6 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Eating | obj |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 makes | obj |
| 9 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 naughty | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Cousin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | gerund | cake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | you | naughty property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
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 should you tell him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 tell | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | should | you | Cousin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Food is not good or bad behaviour; sweets are for sometimes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 good | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 good | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 behaviour | cc |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 behaviour | amod |
| 7 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 good | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 are | punct |
| 9 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 are | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | parataxis |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 sometimes | case |
| 12 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 are | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Food | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | does | present | sweets | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Only grown-ups get naughty from cake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 ups | advmod |
| 2 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ups | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grown | punct |
| 4 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 get | xcomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 cake | case |
| 8 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | get | present | grown ups | cake | naughty property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from cake=Destination |
Option 3
He is right, so you should never eat cake again in your life
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 | _ | 9 eat | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 eat | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 eat | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 eat | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 eat | advmod |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 right | conj |
| 10 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 eat | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not eat | should | you | cake | your life | again | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient |
Option 4
Cake makes you naughty only on weekdays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 weekdays | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 weekdays | case |
| 7 | weekdays | weekday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 makes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Cake | you | weekdays | naughty property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product |
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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