Test 18 · ★ · Compliments and respecting differences

apparently the new girl doesn't eat meat cos her family's in a weird cult, someone said. what's probably just a rumour?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: new girl, someone · What happens: not eat, say, be · To what, where: meat, weird cult, rumour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 226 «Compliments and respecting differences» 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	4 girl	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 eat	advmod
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
9	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 family	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 family	nmod:poss
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
12	's	's	PART	_	11 family	case
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 cult	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cult	det
15	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cult	amod
16	cult	cult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 rumour	punct
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 rumour	nsubj
22	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 rumour	cop
23	probably	probably	ADV	_	26 rumour	advmod
24	just	just	ADV	_	26 rumour	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rumour	det
26	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	ccomp
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · do-support	the new girl	meat	a weird cult	cos girl's family	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	someone				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		a rumour		probably property	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

That families have customs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 families	det
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	that families	customs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Patient

Option 2

That she doesn't eat meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 eat	obl
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · do-support	she	That					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

Option 3

That vegetarians eat vegetables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 vegetarians	det
2	vegetarians	vegetarian	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	that vegetarians	vegetables					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vegetable=Patient

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

The cult; people are vegetarian for health, belief or animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cult	det
2	cult	cult	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 vegetarian	punct
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 vegetarian	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 vegetarian	cop
6	vegetarian	vegetarian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cult	acl:relcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 health	case
8	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vegetarian	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 belief	punct
10	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 health	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 animals	cc
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 health	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	people	the cult not said here				for health and belief or animals; vegetarian property	tree rules

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