Test 8 · Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals

A girl in Perth feels dizzy and sick after hours on the beach in the sun. What do her body's signals mean?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, signals, body · What happens: feel, mean, signal · To what, where: sun.

This is test 8 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feels	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Perth	case
4	Perth	Perth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feels	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sick	cc
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dizzy	conj
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 hours	case
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feels	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 beach	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beach	det
13	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hours	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 sun.	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sun.	det
16	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beach	nmod
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 mean	obj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 mean	aux
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 body	nmod:poss
20	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 signals	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 body	case
22	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 mean	nsubj
23	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sun.	acl:relcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feels	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	a girl in Perth		hour	dizzy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	mean	present · do-support	girl's body's signals	the sun.			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	signal		girl's body				nom signal «communication transitive»: poss=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

She needs to swim further out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 swim	mark
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 needs	xcomp
5	further	further	ADV	_	6 out	advmod
6	out	out	ADV	_	4 swim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	swim not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here					out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Her body is just bored

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	2 body	nmod:poss
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bored	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bored	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 bored	advmod
5	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her body					bored property	tree rules

Option 3

She is hungry for ice cream only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 cream	case
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cream	compound
6	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hungry	obl
7	only	only	ADV	_	6 cream	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					for ice cream; hungry property	tree rules

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

She is too hot and needs shade and water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hot	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 needs	cc
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	conj
7	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 water	cc
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shade	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					hot property	tree rules
2	need	present	She not said here	shade and water					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shade=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/9-body-signals/t8/