Test 7 · Wasting food and water
buffet: kid comes back with a mountain of food and eats half. What's the smart way?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: buffet kid, smart way · What happens: come back, eat, be
This is test 7 of lesson 360 «Wasting food and water» 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: buffet: kid comes back with a mountain of food and eats half.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buffet | buffet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kid | compound |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 buffet | punct |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 comes | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 mountain | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mountain | det |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 food | case |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mountain | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 eats | cc |
| 12 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 comes | conj |
| 13 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 12 eats | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | present | buffet kid | with a mountain of food | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | buffet kid not said here | half property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: What's the smart way?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the smart way | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Don't eat at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 eat | advmod |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 eat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | imperative · do-support | you not said here | all | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Take a little, go back for more if hungry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 more | case |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 hungry | mark |
| 10 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Take | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | a little | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go back | infinitive | you not said here | for more | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Take one thing only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thing | nummod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | one thing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
Option 4
Take a mountain every time, just in case
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mountain | det |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 case | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 case | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 case | case |
| 9 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | a mountain | case | time | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mountain=Value in case=Location |
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