Test 17 · ★ · The lunchroom and school trips

Why did the school nurse use an EpiPen when Sam's face swelled at lunch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: school nurse, face · What happens: use, swell · To what, where: EpiPen, lunch

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 258 «The lunchroom and school trips» 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 use	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nurse	det
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nurse	compound
5	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 EpiPen	det
8	EpiPen	EpiPen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 use	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 swelled	advmod
10	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 face	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Sam	case
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swelled	nsubj
13	swelled	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 lunch	case
15	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swelled	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · do-support	the school nurse	a EpiPen					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent epipen=Patient
2	swell	past	Sam's face			lunch			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

He had eaten too fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eaten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 eaten	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	He					fast property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was a dangerous allergic reaction

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	6 reaction	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reaction	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reaction	det
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reaction	amod
5	allergic	allergic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reaction	amod
6	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a dangerous allergic reaction					tree rules

Option 3

He had caught a very bad cold that morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caught	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	aux
3	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cold	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 bad	advmod
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cold	amod
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 morning	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cold	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · perfect · passive		He					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary cold=Theme

Option 4

He was far too hot in the crowded lunchroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hot	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 hot	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 lunchroom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lunchroom	det
8	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lunchroom	amod
9	lunchroom	lunchroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			the crowded lunchroom		far, hot property	tree rules

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