Test 2 · ★★ · Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens
Max says Ruby's nut allergy is just being picky. What's the truth?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Max, nut allergy, truth · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens» of the medicine 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: Max says Ruby's nut allergy is just being picky.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 allergy | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Ruby | case |
| 5 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 allergy | compound |
| 6 | allergy | allergy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 picky | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 picky | cop |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 picky | advmod |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 picky | cop |
| 10 | picky | picky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Max | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Ruby's nut allergy | picky property | tree rules |
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's the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
He's right, it's just fussiness about food she doesn't fancy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fussiness | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fussiness | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fussiness | cop |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 fussiness | advmod |
| 8 | fussiness | fussiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 right | obl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 food | case |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fussiness | nmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fancy | nsubj |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fancy | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 fancy | advmod |
| 14 | fancy | fancy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 food | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | fussiness | about food | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not fancy | present · do-support | she | food not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |
Option 2
Allergies are made up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allergies | allergy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | present · passive | Allergies | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
Option 3
Nut allergies only make you sneeze a bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 allergies | compound |
| 2 | allergies | allergy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | sneeze | sneeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sneeze | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Nut allergies | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sneeze | infinitive | you not said here | a bit | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
An allergy is the immune system overreacting, not a dislike
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 allergy | det |
| 2 | allergy | allergy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 system | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 system | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 system | det |
| 5 | immune | immune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 system | compound |
| 6 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | overreacting | overreact | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 system | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dislike | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 dislike | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dislike | det |
| 11 | dislike | dislike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 overreacting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a allergy | the immune system | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overreact | gerund | the immune system not said here | a dislike | tree rules |
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