Test 15 · ★★ · Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma

got a nut allergy, can i try just a tiny bit of my friend's choc

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: get, try · To what, where: nut allergy, tiny bit

This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 85 «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» 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	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 allergy	det
3	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allergy	compound
4	allergy	allergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 got	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 try	punct
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 try	aux
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 try	nsubj
8	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 got	parataxis
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 bit	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bit	amod
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 try	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 choc	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 friend	nmod:poss
15	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 choc	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 friend	case
17	choc	choc	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past		a nut allergy					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer allergy=Stimulus
2	try	can	i	a tiny bit of my friend's choc					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yes, a small bite is safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 safe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bite	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bite	amod
5	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 safe	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 safe	cop
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a small bite					safe property	tree rules

Option 2

Only on a weekend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 weekend	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 weekend	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 weekend	det
4	weekend	weekend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, even a tiny bit can make it hard to breathe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	even	even	ADV	_	8 make	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bit	amod
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 make	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 breathe	mark
12	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	a tiny bit	it				hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
2	breathe	to-infinitive							vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, if you wash it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 wash	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wash	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 wash	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wash	nsubj
5	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wash	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 wash	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash down	present	you	it					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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