Test 4 · Elements and the famous members of the periodic table
Your friend says: "Spinach is the best food for iron by miles, that's why Popeye is strong." Put him right.
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, Spinach, best food, Popeye, you · What happens: say, be, put · To what, where: best food, Popeye · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 of lesson 2 «Elements and the famous members of the periodic table» of the chemistry 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: Your friend says: "Spinach is the best food for iron by miles, that's why Popeye is strong."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 food | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 food | punct |
| 6 | Spinach | spinach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 food | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 food | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 food | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 food | amod |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 iron | case |
| 12 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 food | nmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 miles | case |
| 14 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 iron | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 why | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 why | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 why | cop |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 food | acl:relcl |
| 19 | Popeye | Popeye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 strong | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 strong | cop |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 why | advcl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 strong | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 strong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Spinach | the best food | for iron by miles | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the best food | the best food not said here | why property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Popeye | strong property | 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.
Sentence 2: Put him right.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | Popeye | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
The options
Option 1
Iron only comes from tablets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 comes | advmod |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 tablets | case |
| 5 | tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Iron | tablets | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tablet=Initial_Location |
Option 2
Spinach contains no iron at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spinach | spinach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 contains | nsubj |
| 2 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 iron | det |
| 4 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 contains | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 iron | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | Spinach | no iron | all | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot iron=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
That story is exaggerated; meat, beans and lentils are as good or better
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 exaggerated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 exaggerated | aux:pass |
| 4 | exaggerated | exaggerate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 meat | punct |
| 6 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 good | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beans | punct |
| 8 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 meat | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lentils | cc |
| 10 | lentils | lentil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 beans | conj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 good | cop |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 good | advmod |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 exaggerated | parataxis |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 better | cc |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 good | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exaggerate | present · passive | that story | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | meat and beans and lentils | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | meat and beans and lentils not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
He is right, spinach is the only food in the world that has any iron in it
The tree, 17 words
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 | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 food | punct |
| 5 | spinach | spinach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 food | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 food | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 food | det |
| 8 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 food | amod |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 right | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 food | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 food | parataxis |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 iron | det |
| 16 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 has | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | spinach | the only food | the world | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | present | that | any iron | spinach | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Patient |
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