Test 8 · ★★★ · The brain and nerves

argh ice cream headache. how do i stop it??

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: stop · To what, where: headache

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 68 «The brain and nerves» 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	argh	argh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 headache	amod
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cream	compound
3	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 headache	compound
4	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 headache	punct
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 stop	advmod
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stop	aux
8	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 stop	nsubj
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 headache	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stop	obj
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	4 headache	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present · do-support	i	headache					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality

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

Stand on your head till it goes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 head	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 goes	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 goes	nsubj
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stand	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here			your head			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location
2	go	present	head						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Slow down and warm the roof of your mouth, it soon passes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Slow	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 warm	cc
4	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Slow	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roof	det
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warm	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mouth	nmod:poss
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roof	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 passes	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 passes	nsubj
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 passes	advmod
13	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slow down	imperative	you not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	warm	infinitive	you not said here	the roof of your mouth		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent roof=Patient
3	pass	present	roof		soon property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Eat more ice cream even faster to freeze the headache out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 cream	amod
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cream	compound
4	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eat	obj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 faster	advmod
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Eat	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 freeze	mark
8	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Eat	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 headache	det
10	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 freeze	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	8 freeze	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	more ice cream				fast property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cream=Patient
2	freeze out	to-infinitive	you not said here	the headache					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient headache=Result

Option 4

It lasts all day and nothing helps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lasts	nsubj
2	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 helps	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nothing	cc
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 day	conj
7	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lasts	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present	It						vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	help	present	all day						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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