Test 1 · The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccup…

«had a can of cola and now I can't stop burping, why lol» What is the reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: have, not stop, burp, be · To what, where: cola, reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 364 «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» 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	_	2 had	punct
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 reason	parataxis
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cola	det
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cola	aux
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 cola	case
6	cola	cola	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stop	cc
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stop	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 stop	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 stop	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 stop	advmod
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
13	burping	burp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 stop	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 why	punct
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 burping	advmod
16	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 had	discourse
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 reason	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 reason	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 reason	det
21	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have in a quote	past		a cola		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cola=Patient
2	not stop in a quote	can	I		now	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	burp in a quote	gerund	I not said here			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present		the reason		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

Cola makes the stomach shrink so the air gets squeezed out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cola	Cola	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stomach	det
4	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 squeezed	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 squeezed	nsubj:pass
9	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 squeezed	aux:pass
10	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 makes	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 squeezed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	present	Cola	the stomach	tree rules
2	shrink	present	the stomach not said here		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	squeeze out	present · passive		the air	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The bubbles of carbon dioxide in the drink come back up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bubbles	det
2	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 come	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dioxide	case
4	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dioxide	compound
5	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bubbles	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 drink	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drink	det
8	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dioxide	nmod
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	up	up	ADV	_	9 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	the bubbles of carbon dioxide in the drink						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Burping is caused by sugar only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burping	burping	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 caused	aux:pass
3	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 sugar	case
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obl
6	only	only	ADV	_	3 caused	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present · passive	sugar	Burping					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient

Option 4

Cola is made of air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cola	Cola	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 air	case
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Cola				of air	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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