Test 4 · ★★★ · A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions

Why might a diabetic child need a snack before a big football match?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: diabetic child · What happens: need · To what, where: snack

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 need	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	diabetic	diabetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 snack	det
8	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj
9	before	before	ADP	_	13 match	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 match	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 match	amod
12	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 match	compound
13	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	might	a diabetic child	a snack			before a big football match		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot snack=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Football makes you diabetic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	diabetic	diabetic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Football	diabetic	you				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary diabetic=Product

Option 2

So he can run faster than all the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 run	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 run	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 others	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 others	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	can	he					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Snacks cure his diabetes for the whole of an afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snacks	snack	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cure	nsubj
2	cure	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 diabetes	nmod:poss
4	diabetes	diabetes	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cure	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 whole	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 whole	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cure	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 afternoon	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 afternoon	det
10	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	present	Snacks	his diabetes				for the whole	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer diabetes=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Exercise uses sugar and could cause a hypo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cause	cc
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cause	aux
6	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 uses	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hypo	det
8	hypo	hypo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Exercise	sugar					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient
2	cause	could	Exercise not said here	a hypo					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition hypo=Patient

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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