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Test 2 · ★ · Eczema and other skin troubles

In a fairy tale, a witch says touching a toad gives you warts. What's true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch, touching · What happens: say, touch, give, be · To what, where: fairy tale, toad, warts, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 15 «Eczema and other skin troubles» 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 fairy tale, a witch says touching a toad gives you warts.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 tale	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tale	det
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tale	compound
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tale	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 gives	csubj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 toad	det
11	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touching	obj
12	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 gives	iobj
14	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gives	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a witch			a fairy tale			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	touch	gerund		a toad					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme toad=Co-Theme
3	give	present	touching	warts	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wart=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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Frogs give warts, toads don't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
5	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 give	conj
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Frogs	warts					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wart=Theme
2	not do	present	toads						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Toads do give you warts if you hold them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obj
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 hold	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 hold	nsubj
8	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 give	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · do-support	Toads	warts	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wart=Theme
2	hold a condition, not said to happen	present	you	warts = wart					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Warts are caused by a virus, not toads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caused	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 caused	aux:pass
3	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 virus	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 virus	det
6	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 toads	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 toads	advmod
9	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caused	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present · passive	a virus	Warts					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient

Option 4

Warts come from kissing frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	4 kissing	mark
4	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 come	advcl
5	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kissing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Warts						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kiss	gerund	Warts not said here	frogs					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Co-Agent

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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