Test 1 · Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn

«it's cloudy, don't need sun cream today» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, not need · To what, where: sun cream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 353 «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 cloudy	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cloudy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cloudy	cop
4	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 need	punct
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 need	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 need	advmod
8	need	need	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 cloudy	parataxis
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cream	compound
10	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 need	obj
11	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 need	obl:unmarked
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 cloudy	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cloudy	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cloudy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	it			cloudy property	tree rules
2	not need in a quote	infinitive · do-support		sun cream	today		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cream=Theme
3	is	present				right property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

You only burn when it feels hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 burn	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 burn	advmod
3	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 feels	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feels	nsubj
6	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 burn	advcl
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feels	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	You						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	feel	present	it					hot property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Sun cream works only on sunny days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cream	compound
2	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	nsubj
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 days	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 days	case
6	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Sun cream				day		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Clouds block all sunburn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 block	nsubj
2	block	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sunburn	det
4	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 block	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	present	Clouds	all sunburn					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sunburn=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ultraviolet light gets through clouds, so you can still burn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 light	amod
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 clouds	case
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gets	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 burn	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 burn	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 burn	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 burn	aux
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 burn	advmod
11	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gets	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Ultraviolet light			clouds			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through cloud=Destination
2	burn	can	you				still		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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