Test 11 · The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts

A doctor today wanted to copy Beaumont's food-on-a-string tests on a patient. Why would it not be allowed?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: doctor · What happens: want, copy, not allow · To what, where: food, doctor

This is test 11 of lesson 262 «The human body deeper: lungs, stomach and guts» of the biology 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: A doctor today wanted to copy Beaumont's food-on-a-string tests on a patient.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 doctor	det
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
3	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doctor	nmod:unmarked
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 copy	mark
6	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	Beaumont	Beaumont	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 food	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Beaumont	case
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 copy	obj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 tests	punct
11	on	on	ADP	_	16 tests	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 on	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tests	det
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 a	punct
15	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tests	compound
16	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 food	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 patient	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 patient	det
19	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tests	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	a doctor today						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	copy not said to happen	to-infinitive	a doctor today not said here	Beaumont's food and a string tests on a patient					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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.

Sentence 2: Why would it not be allowed?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 allowed	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 allowed	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 allowed	nsubj:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 allowed	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 allowed	aux:pass
6	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 allowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	would · passive		doctor					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1

Stomachs work differently today from how they did in the past, so his results are useless

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stomachs	stomach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 work	nsubj
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	differently	differently	ADV	_	2 work	advmod
4	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 work	obl:unmarked
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 did	mark
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 did	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 work	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 past	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 past	det
11	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 useless	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 useless	advmod
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 results	nmod:poss
15	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 useless	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 useless	cop
17	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 work	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Stomachs		today	differently property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	Stomachs = stomach	the past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	his results			useless property	tree rules
4	result		his = he				nom result «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

There are no more stomachs left to study

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	ADV	_	5 stomachs	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 stomachs	amod
5	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stomachs	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 study	mark
8	study	study	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 left	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	does	present	more stomachs		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	participle		more stomachs not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	study	to-infinitive				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Food on strings is now forbidden in shops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forbidden	nsubj:pass
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 strings	case
3	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Food	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 forbidden	aux:pass
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 forbidden	advmod
6	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 shops	case
8	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forbidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	present · passive		Food on strings		shops	now		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Patients must be safe and freely agree, with careful rules for experiments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 safe	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 safe	cop
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 agree	cc
6	freely	freely	ADV	_	7 agree	advmod
7	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rules	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 rules	case
10	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rules	amod
11	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 safe	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 experiments	case
13	experiments	experiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rules	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	Patients					safe property	tree rules
2	agree speech: agree	present	Patients not said here					freely property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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