Test 4 · ★ · Browning apples, rotting and mould
A yoghurt is two days past "use by" and the biscuits are a month past "best before". Which should you be more careful with?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yoghurt, biscuits · What happens: be, use · To what, where: month past · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 23 «Browning apples, rotting and mould» 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: A yoghurt is two days past "use by" and the biscuits are a month past "best before".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 yoghurt | det |
| 2 | yoghurt | yoghurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 past | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 past | cop |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 past | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 use | punct |
| 8 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 past | parataxis |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 use | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 past | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 past | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 biscuits | det |
| 13 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 past | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 past | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 past | det |
| 16 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 past | compound |
| 17 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 past | conj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 best | punct |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 before | nsubj |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 past | acl:relcl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 past | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 past | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a yoghurt | day | past property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use in a quote | infinitive | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | the biscuits | a month past | 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: Which should you be more careful with?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 careful | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 careful | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 careful | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 careful | cop |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 careful | advmod |
| 6 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 careful | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 careful | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | careful property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The biscuits
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 biscuits | det |
| 2 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The yoghurt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 yoghurt | det |
| 2 | yoghurt | yoghurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Both must be eaten at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 eaten | aux:pass |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 eaten | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | must · passive | Both | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 4
Both are equally fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | cop |
| 3 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 4 fine | advmod |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Both | equally, fine property | tree rules |
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