Test 10 · Asthma and inhalers
Grandma says don't do PE with asthma. What do doctors say?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandma, doctors · What happens: say, not do · To what, where: PE · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 of lesson 14 «Asthma and inhalers» 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: Grandma says don't do PE with asthma.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 says | ccomp |
| 6 | PE | pe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 asthma | case |
| 8 | asthma | asthma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Grandma | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not do | infinitive · do-support | PE | with asthma | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pe=Eventuality |
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 do doctors say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | doctors | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
Exercise every day cures asthma completely in the end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cures | nsubj |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Exercise | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | cures | cure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | asthma | asthma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cures | obj |
| 6 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 4 cures | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cures | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | present | Exercise | asthma | in the end | completely property | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer asthma=Source |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Exercise is good; use your reliever before if needed and warm up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 good | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | cop |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | parataxis |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 reliever | nmod:poss |
| 7 | reliever | reliever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 use | obj |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 needed | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 needed | mark |
| 10 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 use | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 warm | cc |
| 12 | warm | warm | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 warm | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Exercise | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | infinitive | your reliever | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reliever=Patient | |||||
| 3 | need a condition, not said to happen | participle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 4 | warm up | infinitive | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Never exercise at all, it can bring on an attack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 exercise | advmod |
| 2 | exercise | exercise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 exercise | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 exercise | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 attack | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 attack | det |
| 11 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not exercise | imperative | you not said here | all | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring | can | it | a attack | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on attack=Destination |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Only exercise on Sundays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 exercise | advmod |
| 2 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 Sundays | case |
| 4 | Sundays | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 exercise | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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