Test 18 · Sun safety

my brother says u can't get sunburnt skiing cos it's cold

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, u, skiing · What happens: say, not get, be · To what, where: sunburnt skiing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 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 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	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
8	sunburnt	sunburnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 skiing	amod
9	skiing	skiing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	13 cold	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cold	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cold	cop
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not get	can	u	sunburnt skiing		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skiing=Stimulus
3	is	present	skiing		cold property	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

He is right, if you wear gloves

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 wear	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 wear	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 wear	nsubj
7	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
8	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	wear a condition, not said to happen	present	you	gloves					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glove=Theme

Option 2

He is right, cold stops UV

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 stops	punct
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stops	nsubj
6	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	advcl
7	UV	ultra-violet	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	6 stops	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	stop	present	cold	UV					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality ultra-violet=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wrong; snow reflects UV, so you can burn skiing even in the cold

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snow	amod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reflects	nsubj
4	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	UV	ultra-violet	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	4 reflects	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 burn	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 burn	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 burn	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 burn	aux
10	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reflects	conj
11	skiing	ski	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 burn	xcomp
12	even	even	ADV	_	15 cold	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 cold	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cold	det
15	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 skiing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reflect	present	Wrong snow	UV		tree rules
2	burn	can	you			tree rules
3	ski	gerund	you not said here		the cold	vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He is right, but only in the morning before the sun is high up over the slopes

The tree, 17 words

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	_	9 morning	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 morning	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 morning	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 morning	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 morning	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	obl:unmarked
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 up	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 up	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 up	cop
14	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 up	advmod
15	up	up	ADV	_	9 morning	advmod
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 slopes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 slopes	det
18	slopes	slope	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 up	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He				morning	right property	tree rules
2	is	present	the sun			the slopes		high, up property	tree rules

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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