Test 11 · ★★ · Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, ea…

«nan says she never needed glasses so she never will, she's 60» What is most likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nan · What happens: say, not need, be · To what, where: glasses, 60 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 362 «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness» 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	_	3 says	punct
2	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 needed	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 needed	advmod
6	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 needed	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	6 needed	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 will	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 will	advmod
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 needed	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 60	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 60	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 60	cop
15	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 says	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 60	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 likely	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 likely	cop
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 likely	advmod
20	likely	likely	ADV	_	15 60	advmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	nan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not need in a quote	past	nan	glasses		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	nan	60		tree rules
4	is	present			likely 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 · ✓ the right answer

Almost everyone needs reading glasses one day as the eye's lens gets stiff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 everyone	advmod
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glasses	compound
5	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needs	obj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obl:unmarked
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 gets	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eye	det
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lens	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 eye	case
12	lens	lens	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gets	nsubj
13	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 needs	advcl
14	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	everyone	reading glasses			day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme
2	get	present	the eye's lens					stiff property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Glasses are only for short sight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sight	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sight	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 sight	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 sight	case
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sight	amod
6	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Glasses					for short sight	tree rules

Option 3

Only children ever need glasses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 children	advmod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	children	glasses			ever		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme

Option 4

She is right, eyes never change once you are a grown-up, however old you get

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 change	punct
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 change	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 change	advmod
7	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
8	once	once	SCONJ	_	12 grown	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 grown	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 grown	aux:pass
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 grown	det
12	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 change	ccomp
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 up	punct
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 grown	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 old	punct
16	however	however	ADV	_	17 old	advmod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	parataxis
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
19	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 old	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	She		right property	tree rules
2	not change	present	eyes			tree rules
3	grow up	present · passive		you		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	get	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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