Test 18 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

my brother says sugary cereal is healthy cos it says «with vitamins» on the box

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, sugary cereal, cereal · What happens: say, be · To what, where: vitamins, box · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 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

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 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sugary	sugary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cereal	amod
5	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 healthy	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 healthy	cop
7	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 says	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 healthy	advcl
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 vitamins	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 vitamins	case
13	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 says	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 vitamins	punct
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 box	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 box	det
17	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 vitamins	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	sugary cereal			healthy property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	cereal	vitamins	the box		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vitamin=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Not necessarily; many cereals have lots of added sugar, which you can check on the label

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 necessarily	advmod
2	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 necessarily	punct
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cereals	amod
5	cereals	cereal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sugar	case
9	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sugar	amod
10	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lots	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 check	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 check	nsubj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 check	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 check	aux
15	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lots	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 label	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 label	det
18	label	label	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 check	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	many cereals	lots of added sugar		necessarily property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
2	add speech: assert	participle					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	check	can	lots of added sugar		the label		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on label=Location

Option 2

He is right, if you add more sugar

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	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 add	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 add	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 add	nsubj
7	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 sugar	amod
9	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 add	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	add speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	you	more sugar					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient

Option 3

He is right, vitamins make any cereal healthy

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	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
5	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 cereal	det
8	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	make	present	vitamins	any cereal				healthy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cereal=Product

Option 4

He is right, the box would not lie

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	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 box	det
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lie	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 lie	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 lie	advmod
9	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 right	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	not lie	would	the box						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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