Test 17 · ★★ · Allergies, horses and farm animals

heard the class hamster made a girl's face swell up and she couldn't breathe, they called an ambulance

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: class hamster, face, they · What happens: hear, make, swell up, not breathe, call · To what, where: ambulance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 67 «Allergies, horses and farm animals» 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hamster	det
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hamster	compound
4	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 face	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 girl	case
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swell	nsubj
10	swell	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	ccomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 swell	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 breathe	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 breathe	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 breathe	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 breathe	advmod
16	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 called	nsubj
19	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	parataxis
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ambulance	det
21	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear	past	the class hamster not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	make	past	the class hamster		tree rules
3	swell up	present	a girl's face		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	not breathe	could	face		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	call	past	they	a ambulance	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ambulance=Recipient

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

It proves hamsters are poisonous

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 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 proves	obj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 poisonous	cop
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proves	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It	hamsters					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hamster=Theme
2	is	present						poisonous property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Real lesson: anaphylaxis is an emergency; call the emergency number at once and help with the adrenaline pen

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 emergency	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 emergency	punct
4	anaphylaxis	anaphylaxis	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 emergency	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 emergency	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 emergency	det
7	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct
9	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 emergency	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 number	det
11	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 number	compound
12	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 call	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 help	cc
16	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 call	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 pen	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pen	det
19	adrenaline	adrenaline	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pen	compound
20	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 help	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Real lesson	a emergency		tree rules
2	call	infinitive		the emergency number		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent number=Theme at once=Stimulus
3	help	infinitive			with the adrenaline pen	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pen=Theme

Option 3

Real lesson: every class pet should be got rid of straight away, because all pets make children ill

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 pet	det
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pet	compound
6	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj:pass
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 got	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 got	aux:pass
9	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lesson	appos
10	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 away	case
12	straight	straight	ADV	_	13 away	advmod
13	away	away	ADV	_	10 rid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 make	mark
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 pets	det
17	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	nsubj
18	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 got	conj
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	obj
20	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	should · passive		every class pet				rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	make	present	all pets	children				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Product

Option 4

It is gossip, so allergies are never serious

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	3 gossip	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gossip	cop
3	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 serious	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 serious	advmod
6	allergies	allergy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 serious	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 serious	cop
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 serious	advmod
9	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gossip	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	gossip					tree rules
2	not is	present	allergies					serious property	tree rules

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