Test 8 · ★ · Sharing, sleep and safe food

Why is fruit a better snack than sweets between meals?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: fruit · What happens: be · To what, where: better snack

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 209 «Sharing, sleep and safe food» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 snack	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 snack	cop
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snack	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snack	det
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 snack	amod
6	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 sweets	case
8	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 snack	nmod
9	between	between	ADP	_	10 meals	case
10	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sweets	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 snack	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	fruit	a better snack				than sweets between meals	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.

The options

Option 1

Sweets have no energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 energy	det
4	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Sweets	no energy					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient

Option 2

Fruit makes you never hungry again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 hungry	advmod
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Fruit	you			again	hungry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product

Option 3

It has no sugar at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sugar	det
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sugar	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no sugar		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It keeps your energy steady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 energy	nmod:poss
4	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	your energy				steady property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme

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