Test 19 · ★ · Food, drinks and feeling ill

kids reckon if u swim straight after lunch u get a cramp and drown for sure, true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, u · What happens: reckon, swim, get, drown · To what, where: cramp

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 81 «Food, drinks and feeling ill» 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reckon	nsubj
2	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 swim	mark
4	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 swim	nsubj
5	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckon	conj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 lunch	advmod
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 lunch	case
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swim	obl
9	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 get	nsubj
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 swim	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cramp	det
12	cramp	cramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drown	cc
14	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 get	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 sure	case
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 drown	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sure	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	kids				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	swim a condition, not said to happen	present	u		after lunch		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	present	u	a cramp			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cramp=Stimulus
4	drown	infinitive	u not said here			for sure	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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.

The options

Option 1

True, but only after a big pudding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pudding	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pudding	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 pudding	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 pudding	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 pudding	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pudding	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pudding	amod
8	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A myth; there is no good evidence it causes drowning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 myth	det
2	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 causes	nsubj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 causes	advcl
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 evidence	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 evidence	amod
8	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	nsubj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 causes	nsubj
10	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	drowning	drowning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 causes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no good evidence			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cause	present	a myth	drowning					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition drowning=Patient

Option 3

True, so nobody swims on school days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swims	parataxis
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swims	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 swims	advmod
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 swims	nsubj
5	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 days	compound
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swims	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	nobody				day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

True, you must wait two full hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wait	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wait	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wait	aux
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 True	parataxis
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hours	nummod
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hours	amod
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wait	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	must	you				hour		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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