Test 6 · ★ · Getting better, caring for others and medicines

Why is it good to learn what to do if a friend has a long-term illness?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend · What happens: be, learn, do, have · To what, where: term illness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 good	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 good	expl
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 learn	mark
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 good	csubj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 do	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 learn	ccomp
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 has	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 friend	det
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 do	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 illness	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 term	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 long	punct
17	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 illness	compound
18	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 has	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			good property	tree rules
2	learn	to-infinitive				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	to-infinitive				tree rules
4	have a condition, not said to happen	present	a friend	a term illness		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=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.

The options

Option 1

You can tell them what to eat every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 eat	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	ccomp
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	You		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive					day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You can help keep them safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 help	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 help	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	can	You						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	You not said here	them = they				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

You can explain their illness to strangers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 explain	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 explain	aux
3	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 illness	nmod:poss
5	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 explain	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 strangers	case
7	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 explain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	can	You	their illness	strangers				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent illness=Topic to stranger=Recipient

Option 4

You can take their medicine for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 medicine	nmod:poss
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	can	You	their medicine				for them = they	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme for they=Beneficiary
2	medicine		their = they						nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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