Test 5 · ★ · Eczema and other skin troubles
Grandma says my friend's birthmark is because his mum ate strawberries. Right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandma, birthmark · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Grandma says my friend's birthmark is because his mum ate strawberries.
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 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 birthmark | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 friend | case |
| 6 | birthmark | birthmark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ate | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ate | cop |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 ate | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mum | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ate | nsubj |
| 11 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 12 | strawberries | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ate | obj |
| 13 | . | . | 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 | is | present | my friend's birthmark | eat 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: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
No, it's from sunburn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 sunburn | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sunburn | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sunburn | cop |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 sunburn | case |
| 6 | sunburn | sunburn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | sunburn | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, eating lots of red food when pregnant does it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 eating | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 eating | punct |
| 3 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eating | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 food | case |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 food | amod |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lots | nmod |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 pregnant | mark |
| 9 | pregnant | pregnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 does | csubj |
| 10 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eating | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 does | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund | lots of red food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | |||||
| 2 | do | present | food | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, birthmarks are not caused by anything the mother did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 caused | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | birthmarks | birthmark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 caused | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 caused | advmod |
| 6 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 anything | case |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 caused | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mother | det |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 anything | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cause | present · passive | birthmarks | by anything | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the mother | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yes, strawberries cause them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 cause | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | strawberries | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cause | nsubj |
| 4 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cause | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | strawberries | them = they | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition they=Patient |
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