Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs
Health leaflet: "Recreational drugs can damage your brain." What is the leaflet warning about?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Recreational drugs · What happens: damage, be · To what, where: brain, leaflet warning
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 30 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms 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: Health leaflet: "Recreational drugs can damage your brain."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaflet | compound |
| 2 | leaflet | leaflet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 damage | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 damage | punct |
| 5 | Recreational | recreational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drugs | amod |
| 6 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 damage | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 damage | aux |
| 8 | damage | damage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 leaflet | parataxis |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brain | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 damage | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaflet | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaflet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | damage in a quote | can | Recreational drugs | your brain | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=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.
Sentence 2: What is the leaflet warning about?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 warning | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 warning | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 warning | det |
| 4 | leaflet | leaflet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warning | compound |
| 5 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 warning | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 warning | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the leaflet warning | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Sports drinks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drinks | compound |
| 2 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sweets with sugar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 sugar | case |
| 3 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sweets | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Medicines that the doctor gives you to take
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 gives | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doctor | det |
| 4 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gives | nsubj |
| 5 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Medicines | acl:relcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 gives | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gives | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the doctor | Medicines | you | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | the doctor not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Illegal drugs taken for pleasure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 drugs | amod |
| 2 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 drugs | acl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 pleasure | case |
| 5 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | participle | Illegal drugs not said here | for pleasure | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for pleasure=Beneficiary |
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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