Test 5 · Asthma and inhalers
In a cartoon, a boy takes one puff and is cured of asthma for life. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: take, cure, be · To what, where: one puff, cartoon
This is test 5 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: In a cartoon, a boy takes one puff and is cured of asthma for life.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | nsubj |
| 7 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 puff | nummod |
| 9 | puff | puff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cured | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cured | aux:pass |
| 12 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 takes | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 asthma | case |
| 14 | asthma | asthma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cured | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asthma | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 takes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | a boy | one puff | a cartoon | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent puff=Value in cartoon=Location | |||
| 2 | cure | present · passive | a boy not said here | of asthma for life | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: of asthma=Theme |
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 wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Inhalers only make asthma worse over time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inhalers | inhaler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 make | advmod |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | asthma | asthma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 make | xcomp |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Inhalers | asthma | time | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset asthma=Product |
Option 2
Nothing, one puff cures it for ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 cures | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 puff | nummod |
| 4 | puff | puff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cures | nsubj |
| 5 | cures | cure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cures | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ever | case |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 cures | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | present | Nothing | puff | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Inhalers control asthma, they don't cure it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inhalers | inhaler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 control | nsubj |
| 2 | control | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | asthma | asthma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 control | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cure | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cure | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cure | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 cure | advmod |
| 8 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 control | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cure | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | control | present | Inhalers | asthma | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asthma=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not cure | present · do-support | Inhalers = inhaler | asthma | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source |
Option 4
Asthma isn't real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asthma | asthma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 real | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 real | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 real | advmod |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Asthma | real property | tree rules |
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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