Test 2 · ★★ · First aid, medicine and the sun
Your older cousin is 14 and has a headache. Why not just give him aspirin?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: older cousin, you · What happens: be, have, not give · To what, where: 14, headache, aspirin, him
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 210 «First aid, medicine and the sun» 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
Sentence 1: Your older cousin is 14 and has a headache.
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 | 3 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 cousin | amod |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 14 | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 14 | cop |
| 5 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 has | cc |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 14 | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 headache | det |
| 9 | headache | headache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 14 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Your older cousin | 14 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Your older cousin not said here | a headache | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=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: Why not just give him aspirin?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 give | advmod |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 give | advmod |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 give | advmod |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | aspirin | aspirin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | imperative | you not said here | aspirin | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient aspirin=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Aspirin is a sweet with no effect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aspirin | aspirin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sweet | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sweet | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sweet | det |
| 4 | sweet | sweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 effect | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 effect | det |
| 7 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sweet | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Aspirin | a sweet | with no effect | tree rules |
Option 2
Teenagers never really get proper headaches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teenagers | teenager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 headaches | amod |
| 6 | headaches | headache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | infinitive | Teenagers | proper headaches | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headache=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Under 16, aspirin can cause a rare but serious illness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 2 16 | case |
| 2 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 aspirin | nummod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 16 | punct |
| 4 | aspirin | aspirin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cause | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cause | aux |
| 6 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 illness | det |
| 8 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 illness | amod |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 serious | cc |
| 10 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rare | conj |
| 11 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cause | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | can | 16 aspirin | a rare illness | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition illness=Patient |
Option 4
Aspirin only works for grown-ups who are over 60 years old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aspirin | aspirin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 works | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 works | advmod |
| 3 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 ups | case |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ups | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
| 7 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 works | obl |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 old | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 old | cop |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 60 | advmod |
| 11 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 old | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ups | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Aspirin | for grown ups | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for up=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | grown ups | year | old property | tree rules |
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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