Test 2 · Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew…
Leo says apple seeds are deadly poison and he's dying because he ate two. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo, apple seeds · What happens: say, be, die, eat · To what, where: deadly poison, two · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 of lesson 392 «Poisonous plants to stay away from: berries, foxglove, yew and nightshade» 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: Leo says apple seeds are deadly poison and he's dying because he ate two.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeds | compound |
| 4 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 poison | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 poison | cop |
| 6 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 poison | amod |
| 7 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dying | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dying | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dying | aux |
| 11 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 says | conj |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 ate | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ate | nsubj |
| 14 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dying | ccomp |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 ate | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Leo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | apple seeds | deadly poison | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | present · progressive | Leo | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat | past | Leo | two | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient |
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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Swallowing a few by accident is harmless
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swallowing | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 harmless | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 few | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Swallowing | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 accident | case |
| 5 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Swallowing | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 harmless | cop |
| 7 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | gerund | a few | by accident | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Swallowing | harmless property | tree rules |
Option 2
Apple seeds are a kind of strong medicine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple | Apple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 seeds | compound |
| 2 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kind | det |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 medicine | case |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 medicine | amod |
| 8 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Apple seeds | a kind | of strong medicine | tree rules |
Option 3
He needs to go to hospital at once in an ambulance
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 needs | nsubj |
| 2 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 needs | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 hospital | case |
| 6 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 ambulance | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ambulance | det |
| 11 | ambulance | ambulance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | He | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | He not said here | a ambulance | to hospital | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hospital=Initial_Location |
Option 4
Apple seeds are safer to eat than the apple
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple | Apple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 seeds | compound |
| 2 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 safer | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 safer | cop |
| 4 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 safer | advcl |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 apple | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 apple | det |
| 9 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Apple seeds | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | Apple seeds not said here | than the apple | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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