Test 16 · ★ · Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares

video says this tea cures everything

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: video, tea · What happens: say, cure · To what, where: everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 284 «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» 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	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tea	det
4	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cures	nsubj
5	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 cures	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	video						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cure	present	this tea	everything					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer everything=Source

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

It's true if it's natural

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 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 natural	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 natural	expl
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 natural	cop
7	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 true	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present						natural property	tree rules

Option 2

It's true if lots of people liked it and commented

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 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 liked	mark
5	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 liked	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lots	nmod
8	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 true	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 liked	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 commented	cc
11	commented	comment	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 liked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		true property	tree rules
2	like a condition, not said to happen	past	lots of people	it		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	comment speech: other	participle	lots of people not said here			vn lecture-37.11-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A cure for everything is a myth; ask a doctor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cure	det
2	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 myth	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 everything	case
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 cure	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 myth	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 myth	det
7	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 ask	punct
9	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 myth	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 doctor	det
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a cure for everything	a myth					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive		a doctor					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient

Option 4

It's true if a doctor in the video says so

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 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 says	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 doctor	det
6	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 video	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 video	det
9	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doctor	nmod
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	advcl
11	so	so	ADV	_	10 says	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	a doctor in the video						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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