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Test 8 · ★★ · Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma

A friend has asthma and her chest gets tight in PE. What should she use?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, chest · What happens: have, get, use · To what, where: asthma, PE

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A friend has asthma and her chest gets tight in PE.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	asthma	asthma	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gets	cc
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 chest	nmod:poss
7	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	nsubj
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
9	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gets	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 PE	case
11	PE	PE	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gets	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a friend	asthma					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asthma=Patient
2	get	present	friend's chest			PE		tight property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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.

Sentence 2: What should she use?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 use	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	should	friend						vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

The options

Option 1

Nothing; asthma always goes away alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 asthma	compound
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	asthma	asthma	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 goes	advmod
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 goes	advmod
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	present	Nothing asthma					alone, always, away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A friend's inhaler of a different colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inhaler	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 friend	case
4	inhaler	inhaler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 colour	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 colour	det
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 colour	amod
8	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inhaler	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Her reliever inhaler, as the doctor said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 inhaler	nmod:poss
2	reliever	reliever	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 inhaler	compound
3	inhaler	inhaler	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 inhaler	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 doctor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 doctor	det
7	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 inhaler	nmod
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Her reliever inhaler as the doctor						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A bottle of fizzy drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bottle	det
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 drink	case
4	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drink	amod
5	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bottle	nmod

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

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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