Test 8 · ★★ · Digestion: the journey of a sandwich
Sam eats only white bread and sweets for a week and his tummy feels stuck. What is missing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam, tummy · What happens: eat, feel, be · To what, where: white bread
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 67 «Digestion: the journey of a sandwich» 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: Sam eats only white bread and sweets for a week and his tummy feels stuck.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 eats | nsubj |
| 2 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 white | advmod |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bread | amod |
| 5 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eats | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sweets | cc |
| 7 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bread | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 week | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 week | det |
| 10 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eats | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 feels | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tummy | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feels | nsubj |
| 14 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 eats | conj |
| 15 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feels | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 eats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Sam | white bread and sweets | week | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | |||
| 2 | feel | present | Sam's tummy | stuck property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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 missing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 missing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 missing | cop |
| 3 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 missing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | missing property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
More fizzy drinks to wash things through
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 fizzy | advmod |
| 2 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drinks | amod |
| 3 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wash | mark |
| 5 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drinks | acl |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wash | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 wash | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | to-infinitive | things | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
Option 2
Nothing, sweets already have plenty of fibre in them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 have | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fibre | case |
| 8 | fibre | fibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plenty | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fibre | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | sweets | Nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Fibre from fruit, vegetables and whole grains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fibre | fibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 fruit | case |
| 3 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fibre | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 vegetables | punct |
| 5 | vegetables | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fibre | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grains | cc |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grains | amod |
| 8 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fibre | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
More salt on his chips
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 salt | amod |
| 2 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 chips | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chips | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 salt | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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