Test 9 · ★ · Sleep and healthy eating
A girl wants to taste the raw burger meat before her dad cooks it. Why not?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, dad · What happens: want, taste, cook · To what, where: raw burger meat, meat
This is test 9 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A girl wants to taste the raw burger meat before her dad cooks it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 taste | mark |
| 5 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meat | det |
| 7 | raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 meat | amod |
| 8 | burger | burger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meat | compound |
| 9 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taste | obj |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 cooks | mark |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dad | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cooks | nsubj |
| 13 | cooks | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 taste | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cooks | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a girl | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | taste not said to happen | to-infinitive | a girl not said here | the raw burger meat | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme meat=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | cook | present | girl's dad | meat | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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: Why not?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Why | advmod |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Raw meat has no taste at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 meat | amod |
| 2 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 taste | det |
| 5 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 taste | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Raw meat | no taste | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient |
Option 2
Cooking only makes it look nicer on the plate, nothing more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cooking | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 makes | advmod |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | nicer | nice | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 look | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 plate | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 plate | det |
| 9 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nicer | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nothing | punct |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 makes | conj |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 makes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | it | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | nice property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Uncooked meat can carry germs that make you ill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uncooked | uncooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 meat | amod |
| 2 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | aux |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 make | nsubj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 germs | acl:relcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | can | Uncooked meat | germs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | germs | you | ill property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
Option 4
Raw meat is too hard to chew
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 meat | amod |
| 2 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hard | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 chew | mark |
| 7 | chew | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hard | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Raw meat | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chew | to-infinitive | Raw meat not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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