Test 8 · ★★ · Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens
What would happen if the school kitchen didn't list the allergens in its food?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: school kitchen · What happens: happen, not list · To what, where: allergens, food
This is test 8 · ★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 list | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kitchen | det |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kitchen | compound |
| 7 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 list | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 list | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 list | advmod |
| 10 | list | list | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 happen | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 allergens | det |
| 12 | allergens | allergen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 list | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 food | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 food | nmod:poss |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 allergens | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not list a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | the school kitchen | the allergens | kitchen's food | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The food would taste better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 food | det |
| 2 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taste | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 taste | aux |
| 4 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 taste | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | would | the food | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
The cook would get an allergy herself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cook | det |
| 2 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 allergy | det |
| 6 | allergy | allergy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | the cook | a allergy | cook obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer allergy=Stimulus |
Option 3
Nothing at all, because cooking kills all allergens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 kills | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kills | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 kills | mark |
| 6 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kills | nsubj |
| 7 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 allergens | det |
| 9 | allergens | allergen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kills | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | Nothing | all allergens | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent allergen=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Allergic children could eat something dangerous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allergic | allergic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 eat | obj |
| 6 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | could | Allergic children | something | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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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