Test 16 · ★ · Sleep and healthy eating

why's mum so strict about fizzy drinks all the time

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: be

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 80 «Sleep and healthy eating» 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	5 strict	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 strict	cop
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strict	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 strict	advmod
5	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 drinks	case
7	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 drinks	amod
8	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 strict	obl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 time	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strict	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	mum				time	about fizzy drinks; strict 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 · ✓ the right answer

Lots of sugar rots teeth and is bad for your body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rots	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 sugar	case
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lots	nmod
4	rots	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rots	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bad	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bad	cop
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rots	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 body	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 body	nmod:poss
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	present	Lots of sugar	teeth					tree rules
2	is	present	Lots of sugar not said here					for your body; bad property	tree rules

Option 2

Bubbles clean your teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clean	nsubj
2	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 teeth	nmod:poss
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present	Bubbles	your teeth					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

Option 3

Fizzy drinks have no sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 drinks	amod
2	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 sugar	det
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Fizzy drinks	no sugar					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They only matter if you drink ten cans or more in a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 matter	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 matter	advmod
3	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 drink	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 drink	nsubj
6	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 matter	advcl
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 cans	nummod
8	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drink	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 more	cc
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 cans	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 day	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	They						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	drink a condition, not said to happen	present	you	ten cans			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient

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