Test 1 · ★★★ · Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows…
In a Popeye cartoon Popeye swallows a can of spinach and his biceps swell up like a ball in a second. What is the truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Popeye, biceps, truth · What happens: swallow, swell up, be · To what, where: spinach, Popeye cartoon
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 360 «Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles» 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: In a Popeye cartoon Popeye swallows a can of spinach and his biceps swell up like a ball in a second.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cartoon | det |
| 3 | Popeye | Popeye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cartoon | compound |
| 4 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swallows | obl |
| 5 | Popeye | Popeye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 swallows | nsubj |
| 6 | swallows | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 spinach | det |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 spinach | aux |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 spinach | case |
| 10 | spinach | spinach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swallows | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swell | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 biceps | nmod:poss |
| 13 | biceps | biceps | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 swell | nsubj |
| 14 | swell | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 swallows | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 swell | compound:prt |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 ball | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ball | det |
| 18 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swell | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 second | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 second | det |
| 21 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swell | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 swallows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | present | Popeye | a spinach | a Popeye cartoon | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spinach=Patient | |||
| 2 | swell up | present | Popeye's biceps | second | like a ball | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 is the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Muscles never grow stronger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 grow | advmod |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grow | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow | present | Muscles | strong property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Spinach really grows muscle in seconds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spinach | spinach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 grows | advmod |
| 3 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | muscle | muscle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 seconds | case |
| 6 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Spinach | muscle | second | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location muscle=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Muscles grow stronger slowly over weeks of use, and no food does that in seconds
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 grow | xcomp |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 2 grow | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 weeks | case |
| 6 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 use | case |
| 8 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weeks | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 does | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 does | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 food | det |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 does | nsubj |
| 13 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grow | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 does | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 seconds | case |
| 16 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 does | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Muscles | week | slowly, strong property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | present | no food | second | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Only the biceps can grow at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 biceps | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 biceps | det |
| 3 | biceps | biceps | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 grow | aux |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 grow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | can | the biceps | all | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
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