Test 3 · ★ · Sleep and healthy eating

Which is true about trying new foods?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, try · To what, where: new foods

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	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	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 trying	mark
5	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 true	advcl
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 foods	amod
7	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trying	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	try	gerund		new foods					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Eventuality

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

Children's tastes never change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tastes	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Children	case
3	tastes	taste	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 change	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 change	advmod
5	change	change	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	not change	present	Children's tastes						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	taste		Children						nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Only sweet foods can become liked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 foods	advmod
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 foods	amod
3	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 become	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	can	sweet foods						tree rules
2	like	participle	sweet foods not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Many foods you dislike at first become liked after a few tries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 foods	amod
2	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 become	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 dislike	nsubj
4	dislike	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 foods	acl:relcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 first	case
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 dislike	obl
7	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 become	xcomp
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 tries	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tries	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tries	amod
12	tries	try	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 liked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	dislike	present	you	Many foods not said here		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus
2	become	infinitive	Many foods			tree rules
3	like	participle	Many foods not said here		after a few tries	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

If you dislike a food once, you will always dislike it all your life

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 dislike	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 dislike	nsubj
3	dislike	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dislike	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 food	det
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dislike	obj
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 dislike	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dislike	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 dislike	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 dislike	aux
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 dislike	advmod
11	dislike	dislike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dislike	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 life	det:predet
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 life	nmod:poss
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dislike	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dislike a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a food				once property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus
2	dislike	future	you	food				your life obl:unmarked; always property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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