Test 19 · Safe in the kitchen

Ruby got food poisoning after her mum's barbecue, everyone says her mum can't cook, tell people?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ruby, everyone, mum · What happens: get, say, not cook, tell · To what, where: food poisoning, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 of lesson 31 «Safe in the kitchen» 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	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poisoning	compound
4	poisoning	poisoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
5	after	after	ADP	_	9 barbecue	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 barbecue	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mum	case
9	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mum	nmod:poss
14	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cook	nsubj
15	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 cook	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 cook	advmod
17	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 says	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cook	conj
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tell	iobj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	get	past	Ruby	food poisoning		after Ruby's mum's barbecue	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer poisoning=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	everyone				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not cook	can	Ruby's mum				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Ruby's mum not said here		people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient

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

Yes, because food poisoning proves it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 proves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 proves	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 proves	mark
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poisoning	compound
5	poisoning	poisoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proves	nsubj
6	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 proves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	food poisoning	it					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is unkind and may be untrue; the lesson is about clean hands and raw meat

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 unkind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 unkind	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unkind	cop
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 untrue	cc
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 untrue	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 untrue	cop
9	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 unkind	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 hands	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lesson	det
12	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hands	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 hands	cop
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 hands	case
15	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hands	amod
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 unkind	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 meat	cc
18	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 meat	amod
19	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hands	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	it	unkind property	tree rules
2	is	may		untrue property	tree rules
3	is	present	the lesson	about clean hands and raw meat	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, and say half the guests were sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 guests	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guests	det
7	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sick	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sick	cop
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	half guests					sick property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, so nobody goes to her barbecues

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 goes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 goes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 goes	advmod
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 barbecues	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 barbecues	nmod:poss
8	barbecues	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	nobody			her barbecues			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to barbecue=Initial_Location

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