Test 12 · ★★★ · A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions
My friend can eat cake, so he can't really be diabetic. Smart?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: eat, not be · To what, where: cake
This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 16 «A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions» 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: My friend can eat cake, so he can't really be diabetic.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 diabetic | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 diabetic | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 diabetic | nsubj |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 diabetic | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 diabetic | advmod |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 diabetic | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 diabetic | cop |
| 13 | diabetic | diabetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eat | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | can | My friend | cake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not is | can | friend | diabetic 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: Smart?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smart | Smart | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Smart | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, diabetics can't eat cake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 eat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | diabetics | diabetic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 eat | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 eat | advmod |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | can | diabetics | cake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient |
Option 2
Yes, he's lying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 lying | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lying | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lying | aux |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present · progressive | he | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, with carb counting and insulin he can eat most foods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 counting | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 counting | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 counting | case |
| 4 | carb | carb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 counting | compound |
| 5 | counting | counting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 insulin | cc |
| 7 | insulin | insulin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 counting | conj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 eat | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | aux |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 counting | parataxis |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 foods | amod |
| 12 | foods | food | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | can | he | most foods | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
Option 4
No, cake cures diabetes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 cures | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cures | nsubj |
| 4 | cures | cure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | diabetes | diabetes | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cures | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | present | cake | diabetes | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer diabetes=Source |
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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