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The nurse says vaccines are a long story that starts with cows. Who else belongs in it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nurse, vaccines, long story · What happens: say, be, start, belong · To what, where: long story, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 65 «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» of the history 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: The nurse says vaccines are a long story that starts with cows.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 story	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 story	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 story	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	amod
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 starts	nsubj
10	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 story	acl:relcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 cows	case
12	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 starts	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the nurse						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	vaccines	a long story					tree rules
3	start	present	a long story					with cows	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with cow=Subeventuality

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: Who else belongs in it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 belongs	obl
2	else	else	ADV	_	3 belongs	advmod
3	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 belongs	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 belongs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present				story		else property	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody: cows invented it and people just copied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 invented	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 invented	punct
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 invented	nsubj
4	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 invented	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 copied	cc
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 copied	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 copied	advmod
9	copied	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 invented	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past	Nobody	it					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result
2	copy	past	people						vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

People in China, India, Africa and Onesimus in Boston

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 China	case
3	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 People	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 India	punct
5	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 China	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Africa	punct
7	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 China	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Onesimus	cc
9	Onesimus	Onesimus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 China	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Boston	case
11	Boston	Boston	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Onesimus	nmod

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

Option 3

The Wright brothers, who flew vaccines around the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
2	Wright	Wright	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brothers	compound
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flew	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flew	obj
8	around	around	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the Wright brothers	vaccines		the world			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent vaccine=Theme around world=Location

Option 4

Only Jenner; nobody else had any idea before him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Jenner	advmod
2	Jenner	Jenner	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 had	nsubj
5	else	else	ADV	_	4 nobody	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 idea	det
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Jenner	any idea			before him = he		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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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