Test 17 · Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals

did u hear Ollie fainted at sports day, they're saying he didn't drink anything all day cos he wanted to win

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, Ollie, they · What happens: hear, faint, say, not drink, want, win · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 of lesson 9 «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fainted	nsubj
5	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 day	compound
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fainted	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saying	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saying	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 saying	aux
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hear	advcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drink	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drink	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 drink	advmod
16	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saying	ccomp
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 drink	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drink	obl:unmarked
20	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	22 wanted	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wanted	nsubj
22	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drink	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 win	mark
24	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	faint	past	Ollie		day	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	present · progressive	they			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not drink	past · do-support	Ollie	anything	day	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
5	want	past	Ollie			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	win not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ollie not said here			vn succeed-74-2 «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.

The options

Option 1

Real lesson: winners never need water during sport

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obl:unmarked
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 winners	punct
4	winners	winner	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj
8	during	during	ADP	_	9 sport	case
9	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	winners	Real lesson			during sport		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme

Option 2

It is just gossip, so water does not matter in sport

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	4 gossip	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gossip	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 gossip	advmod
4	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 matter	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 matter	advmod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 matter	nsubj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 matter	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 matter	advmod
10	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gossip	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 sport	case
12	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	gossip					tree rules
2	not matter	present · do-support	water	gossip not said here		sport			tree rules

Option 3

It proves only boys faint on sports day

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 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 boys	advmod
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 faint	nsubj
5	faint	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 proves	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 day	compound
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faint	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	faint	present	boys				day		vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Real lesson: drink water often on hot days and in sport; the reason may be just a rumour

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 drink	punct
4	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 lesson	parataxis
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drink	obj
6	often	often	ADV	_	4 drink	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 days	amod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drink	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sport	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 sport	case
12	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 days	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 rumour	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 reason	det
15	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rumour	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 rumour	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 rumour	cop
18	just	just	ADV	_	20 rumour	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 rumour	det
20	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lesson	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	infinitive		water			day	often property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	is a	may	the reason	a rumour					tree rules

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