Test 12 · Sun safety

my skin's dark, don't need sunscreen

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: not need · To what, where: sunscreen

This is test 12 of lesson 46 «Sun safety» 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 skin	nmod:poss
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dark	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 skin	case
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 need	punct
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 need	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 need	advmod
8	need	need	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	parataxis
9	sunscreen	sunscreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	infinitive · do-support		sunscreen					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sunscreen=Theme

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

Dark skin never burns, not even in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 skin	amod
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burns	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 burns	advmod
4	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 summer	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 summer	advmod
7	even	even	ADV	_	9 summer	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 summer	case
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burns	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not burn	present	Dark skin						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You can still burn, you need protection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 burn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 burn	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 burn	advmod
4	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 need	nsubj
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 burn	parataxis
8	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	can	You				still		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	need	present	you	protection					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot protection=Theme

Option 3

Only on very hot days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 days	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 days	case
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Only pale skin needs it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 skin	advmod
2	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 skin	amod
3	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	nsubj
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	pale skin	it					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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