Test 22 · ★ · Food, drinks and feeling ill

Sam's off school n someone said "his mum n dad are splitting up, he's sick from it"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone, mum, Sam · What happens: say, split up, be · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 22 · ★ 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	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 someone	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sam	case
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 n	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 n	compound
5	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 someone	compound
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 mum	punct
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mum	nmod:poss
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 splitting	nsubj
11	n	n	ADP	_	12 dad	case
12	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mum	nmod
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 splitting	aux
14	splitting	split	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 splitting	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sick	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sick	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sick	cop
19	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sick	obl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	someone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	split up in a quote	present · progressive	Sam's mum n dad			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	Sam	it	sick 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 · ← Mova's choice

It means Sam ate bad food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	past	Sam	bad food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 2

Tell everyone so they ask Sam about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 ask	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ask	nsubj
5	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	advcl
6	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	present	they		Sam			about it	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent sam=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sam's parents may be divorcing and he may feel unwell from worry; do not spread it, just be kind when he is back

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 parents	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sam	case
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 divorcing	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 divorcing	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 divorcing	aux
6	divorcing	divorce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feel	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 feel	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 feel	aux
10	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 divorcing	conj
11	unwell	unwell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feel	xcomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 worry	case
13	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 unwell	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 spread	punct
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 spread	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 spread	advmod
17	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 divorcing	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 spread	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kind	punct
20	just	just	ADV	_	22 kind	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 kind	cop
22	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 spread	parataxis
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 back	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 back	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 back	cop
26	back	back	ADV	_	22 kind	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	divorce	may · progressive	Sam's parents			vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	may	Sam		unwell property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	not spread	infinitive · do-support		worry		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	is	infinitive			kind property	tree rules
5	is	present	Sam		back property	tree rules

Option 4

It means Sam caused it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 caused	nsubj
4	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caused	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cause	past	Sam	it					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient

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