Test 9 · Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats
A child drinks a can of cola at bedtime. Why might she feel tired the next day?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: drink, feel · To what, where: cola, bedtime
This is test 9 of lesson 347 «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» 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 child drinks a can of cola at bedtime.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drinks | nsubj |
| 3 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cola | det |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cola | aux |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cola | case |
| 7 | cola | cola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drinks | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 bedtime | case |
| 9 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cola | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drinks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present | a child | a cola | bedtime | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cola=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: Why might she feel tired the next day?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 feel | advmod |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | might | child | day | tired property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The caffeine kept her awake and spoiled her sleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 caffeine | det |
| 2 | caffeine | caffeine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 awake | nmod:poss |
| 5 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spoiled | cc |
| 7 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoiled | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the caffeine | awake property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | spoil | past | the caffeine not said here | caffeine's sleep | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep | caffeine | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
Cola makes people grow overnight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cola | cola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | overnight | overnight | ADV | _ | 4 grow | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Cola | people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | infinitive | people not said here | overnight property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Bubbles stop the heart for a while
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 heart | det |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stop | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 while | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 while | det |
| 7 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stop | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Bubbles | the heart | while | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality heart=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Cola has no sugar, so she had no energy left for the morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cola | Cola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sugar | det |
| 4 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 had | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | parataxis |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 energy | det |
| 10 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 energy | acl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 morning | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 morning | det |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Cola | no sugar | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Cola | no energy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | no energy not said here | morning | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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