Test 8 · ★★ · First aid, medicine and the sun

Why does sunscreen matter for children even if they do not mind going red?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sunscreen, children · What happens: matter, not mind, go

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 matter	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	sunscreen	sunscreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matter	nsubj
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 children	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 matter	obl
7	even	even	ADV	_	12 mind	advmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 mind	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mind	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mind	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 mind	advmod
12	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 matter	advcl
13	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 mind	xcomp
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 going	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 matter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	matter	present · do-support	sunscreen	for children	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	not mind a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	children = child		vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	gerund	children = child not said here	red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Sunburn makes you taller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sunburn	sunburn	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	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Sunburn	you				tall property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sunburn raises the risk of skin cancer later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raises	nsubj
2	raises	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 risk	det
4	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raises	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cancer	case
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cancer	compound
7	cancer	cancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 risk	nmod
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 raises	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	present	Sunburn	the risk of skin cancer				late property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent risk=Theme
2	risk			skin cancer					nom risk «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Red skin is only a colour change and soon fades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 skin	amod
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 change	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 change	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 change	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 change	det
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 change	compound
7	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fades	cc
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 fades	advmod
10	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 change	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Red skin	a colour change					tree rules
2	fade	present	Red skin not said here					soon property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It only matters for adults

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	3 matters	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 matters	advmod
3	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 matters	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	It					for adults	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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