Test 19 · ★ · Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes

my aunt says reading in the car makes you "throw up for a whole week". what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: aunt, reading, you · What happens: say, read, make, throw up, be, exaggerate · To what, where: car, you, prob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 310 «Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunt	nmod:poss
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 makes	csubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 car	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reading	obl
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 makes	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 throw	punct
11	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 makes	xcomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 throw	compound:prt
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 week	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 week	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 week	amod
16	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throw	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 throw	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 prob	advmod
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 prob	cop
21	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
22	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 prob	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my aunt				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	read	gerund			the car		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	present	reading	you			tree rules
4	throw up in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			week	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present		prob			tree rules
6	exaggerate	participle		prob not said here			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 fresh air helps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 air	det
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 air	amod
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helps	nsubj
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	that fresh air						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

That cars can make you sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 cars	det
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	that cars	you				sick property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product

Option 3

That reading can worsen it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 reading	det
2	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worsen	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 worsen	aux
4	worsen	worsen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worsen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	worsen	can	that reading	it					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

The whole week; reading can make car sickness worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 week	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 week	amod
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reading	compound
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 week	punct
5	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sickness	compound
9	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	week reading	car sickness				bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sickness=Product

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