Test 11 · ★ · Smells that warn

milk smells fine but it's way past the date, drink it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: milk · What happens: smell, be, drink · To what, where: way, milk

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 13 «Smells that warn» of the everyday 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	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smells	nsubj
2	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 smells	xcomp
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 way	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 way	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smells	conj
8	past	past	ADP	_	10 date	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 date	det
10	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 way	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drink	punct
12	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 smells	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 drink	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 smells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smell	present	milk		fine property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present	milk	way	past the date	tree rules
3	drink	infinitive		milk		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

When in doubt, throw it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 throw	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 doubt	case
3	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 throw	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 doubt	punct
5	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 throw	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 throw	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	imperative	you not said here	doubt		doubt			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in doubt=Destination

Option 2

Yes, smell is always a safe test

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 test	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 test	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 test	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 test	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 test	det
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 test	amod
8	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	smell	a safe test				always property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, just boil it a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 boil	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 boil	advmod
4	boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 boil	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boil	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	imperative	you not said here	it				a bit obl:unmarked	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Yes, if it looks white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 looks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 looks	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 looks	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looks	nsubj
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	it					white property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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