Test 11 · Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn

Why might people in a northern country take vitamin D in winter?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: take · To what, where: vitamin D

This is test 11 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 take	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 take	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 country	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 country	det
6	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 country	amod
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 D	compound
10	D	D	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 winter	case
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	might	people in a northern country	vitamin D			winter		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent d=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.

The options

Option 1

Winter food has no vitamins in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 food	compound
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 vitamins	det
5	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 vitamins	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Winter food	no vitamins		it			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The winter sun is too weak for skin to make enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sun	compound
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weak	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 weak	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 weak	advmod
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 skin	case
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weak	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 weak	advcl
11	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the winter sun					for skin; weak property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	the winter sun not said here	enough					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset enough=Product

Option 3

Thick coats stop the skin from making enough sweat to keep it healthy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 coats	amod
2	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 skin	det
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obj
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 making	mark
7	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stop	advcl
8	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sweat	amod
9	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 making	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 keep	mark
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 making	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 keep	obj
13	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Thick coats	the skin		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality skin=Eventuality
2	make	gerund	Thick coats not said here	enough sweat		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sweat=Product
3	keep	to-infinitive	Thick coats not said here	sweat	healthy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Cold kills vitamin D in the blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kills	nsubj
2	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 D	compound
4	D	D	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kills	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 blood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blood	det
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kills	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	Cold	vitamin D		the blood			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent d=Theme

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