Test 6 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

Why is plain yoghurt with berries a better choice than a doughnut for breakfast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: plain yoghurt

This is test 6 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 yoghurt	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 yoghurt	cop
3	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 yoghurt	amod
4	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 berries	case
6	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 yoghurt	nmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 choice	det
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 choice	amod
9	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 berries	appos
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 doughnut	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 doughnut	det
12	doughnut	doughnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 choice	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 breakfast	case
14	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 doughnut	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 yoghurt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		plain yoghurt				with berries	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 · ← Mova's choice

Doughnuts are made of whole grains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doughnuts	doughnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 grains	case
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grains	amod
6	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Doughnuts				of whole grains	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

It has no food value but tastes nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 value	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 value	compound
5	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 tastes	cc
7	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tastes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no food value					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Patient
2	taste	present						nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It has protein and fruit with less added sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fruit	cc
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 protein	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 sugar	case
7	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 sugar	amod
8	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sugar	amod
9	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 protein	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	protein and fruit				with less added sugar	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protein=Patient
2	add speech: assert	participle							vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It is more sugary so it gives more energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sugary	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sugary	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 sugary	advmod
4	sugary	sugary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 gives	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gives	nsubj
7	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sugary	advcl
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 energy	amod
9	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					sugary property	tree rules
2	give	present	it	more energy					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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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