Test 1 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast
A boy in Melbourne has a big bowl of chocolate cereal and is starving by 10 o'clock. What is the best explanation?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, best explanation · What happens: have, starve, be · To what, where: big bowl
This is test 1 of lesson 38 «Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast» 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 Melbourne has a big bowl of chocolate cereal and is starving by 10 o'clock.
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 Melbourne | case |
| 4 | Melbourne | Melbourne | 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 | 8 bowl | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bowl | amod |
| 8 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cereal | case |
| 10 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cereal | compound |
| 11 | cereal | cereal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bowl | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 starving | cc |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 starving | aux |
| 14 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 has | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 o'clock | case |
| 16 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 o'clock | nummod |
| 17 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 starving | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a boy in Melbourne | a big bowl of chocolate cereal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient | ||||
| 2 | starve | present · progressive | a boy in Melbourne not said here | by 10 o'clock | 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.
Sentence 2: What is the best explanation?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 explanation | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 explanation | amod |
| 5 | explanation | explanation | 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 best explanation | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Cereal makes the stomach work too fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cereal | cereal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 work | det |
| 4 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 work | compound |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 fast | advmod |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 makes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Cereal | the stomach work | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material work=Product |
Option 2
Chocolate takes much longer to digest than oats do
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 longer | advmod |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 takes | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 digest | mark |
| 6 | digest | digest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 takes | advcl |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 oats | case |
| 8 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 digest | obl |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 takes | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Chocolate | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | digest | to-infinitive | Chocolate not said here | than oats | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present | Chocolate not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
He ate too much protein for breakfast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 protein | amod |
| 5 | protein | protein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ate | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 breakfast | case |
| 7 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ate | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | He | much protein | for breakfast | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protein=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The sugar gave quick energy that did not last
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sugar | det |
| 2 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 energy | amod |
| 5 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 last | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 last | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 last | advmod |
| 9 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 energy | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the sugar | quick energy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not last | past · do-support | quick energy | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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