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Test 9 · ★ · Eyes, nose and using the toilet

A friend says the best thing for constipation is to stop eating. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, best thing · What happens: say, be, eat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 78 «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» 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

Sentence 1: A friend says the best thing for constipation is to stop eating.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stop	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 constipation	case
8	constipation	constipation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stop	mark
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
12	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stop	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	the best thing for constipation					stop property	tree rules
3	eat	gerund	the best thing for constipation not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fruit, vegetables, whole grains and water help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 help	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 vegetables	punct
3	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fruit	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grains	punct
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grains	amod
6	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fruit	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 water	cc
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fruit	conj
9	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Fruit and vegetables and whole grains and water						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Eating only cheese helps most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 helps	csubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 cheese	advmod
3	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eating	obj
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 helps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		cheese					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient
2	help	present	Eating	most					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Beneficiary

Option 3

Stopping eating for a day or two cures it at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 cures	csubj
2	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stopping	xcomp
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eating	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 two	cc
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	conj
8	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cures	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 cures	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	gerund							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund					day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cure	present	Stopping	it					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source

Option 4

Sweets make it pass faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 pass	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Sweets	it					tree rules
2	pass	infinitive						fast property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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