Test 6 · Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise

What would happen if you only ate chips for months?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, eat · To what, where: chips

This is test 6 of lesson 72 «Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 ate	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 ate	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 ate	advmod
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ate	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 months	case
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ate	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat a condition, not said to happen	past	you	chips			month		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=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.

The options

Option 1

You would grow faster than other children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 children	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 children	amod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	You					than other children; fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You would miss vitamins, because no single food has everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 miss	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 miss	aux
3	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 miss	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 has	mark
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 food	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 food	amod
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 miss	conj
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	would	You	vitamins					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vitamin=Stimulus
2	have	present	no single food	everything					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient

Option 3

You would never get ill again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	would	You				again	ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, chips have every vitamin and mineral that a growing child needs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 chips	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 vitamin	det
6	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mineral	cc
8	mineral	mineral	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vitamin	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 needs	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
11	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 child	amod
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 needs	nsubj
13	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 vitamin	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	Nothing chips	every vitamin and mineral	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=Patient
2	grow	gerund			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	need	present	a growing child	every vitamin and mineral not said here	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vitamin=Theme

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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