Test 3 · ★ · Getting better, caring for others and medicines
A boy has a fever and does not feel like eating much. What should he do?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: have, not feel, eat, do · To what, where: fever
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 82 «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» 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 boy has a fever and does not feel like eating much.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fever | det |
| 5 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 feel | cc |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 feel | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 feel | advmod |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | conj |
| 10 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 11 eating | mark |
| 11 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 feel | advcl |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 eating | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a boy | a fever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not feel | present · do-support | a boy not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | a boy not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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.
Sentence 2: What should he do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Eat nothing until the fever is gone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Eat | obj |
| 3 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 gone | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fever | det |
| 5 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | cop |
| 7 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Eat | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | imperative | you not said here | nothing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the fever | gone property | tree rules |
Option 2
Eat as much as possible to win
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Eat | obj |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 possible | mark |
| 5 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Eat | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 win | mark |
| 7 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 possible | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | imperative | you not said here | much | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 2 | win | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Drink nothing so the fever dries out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Drink | obj |
| 3 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 6 dries | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fever | det |
| 5 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dries | nsubj |
| 6 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Drink | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 dries | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | imperative | you not said here | nothing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | dry out | present | the fever | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Eat what he can and drink plenty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Eat | obj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 can | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 drink | cc |
| 6 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Eat | conj |
| 7 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drink | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | imperative | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | |||||
| 2 | drink | infinitive | you not said here | plenty | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
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