Test 1 · ★ · Helpers in town and building sites

A boy in Leeds has a pain in his ear. Which helps the doctor most?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: have, help · To what, where: pain, ear, doctor

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 274 «Helpers in town and building sites» 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: A boy in Leeds has a pain in his ear.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pain	det
7	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 ear	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ear	nmod:poss
10	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pain	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a boy in Leeds	a pain		boy's ear			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=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: Which helps the doctor most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	obj
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 helps	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present		the doctor					tree rules

The options

Option 1

"My right ear hurts and it started this morning," when it is the left

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hurts	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ear	nmod:poss
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ear	amod
4	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurts	nsubj
5	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 started	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 started	nsubj
8	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hurts	conj
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 started	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 left	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 left	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 left	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 left	det
17	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hurt in a quote	present	My right ear			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	start in a quote	past	ear		morning	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is a	present	ear	the left		tree rules

Option 2

"I feel bad all over."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 over	advmod
6	over	over	ADV	_	3 feel	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel in a quote	present	I					bad, over property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

"My left ear hurts and it started this morning."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hurts	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ear	nmod:poss
3	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ear	amod
4	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurts	nsubj
5	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 started	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 started	nsubj
8	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hurts	conj
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 started	obl:unmarked
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hurts	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hurts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt in a quote	present	My left ear						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	start in a quote	past	ear				morning		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

"I don't know, you tell me."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	ccomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know in a quote	present · do-support	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	you		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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