Test 9 · ★★★ · A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions
Your grandad and your friend both have diabetes, but only your friend has injections. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandad, friend · What happens: have · To what, where: diabetes, injections
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: Your grandad and your friend both have diabetes, but only your friend has injections.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 friend | cc |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grandad | conj |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | diabetes | diabetes | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 has | cc |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 friend | advmod |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friend | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | conj |
| 15 | injections | injection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 has | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Your grandad and your friend | diabetes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diabetes=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | your friend | injections | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injection=Patient |
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: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Old people can't have injections
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | injections | injection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | can | Old people | injections | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injection=Patient |
Option 2
Your friend is faking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 faking | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 faking | aux |
| 4 | faking | fake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fake | present · progressive | Your friend | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Grandad has type 2, which is often treated with tablets and diet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 type | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 treated | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 treated | aux:pass |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 treated | advmod |
| 9 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 type | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 tablets | case |
| 11 | tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 treated | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 diet | cc |
| 13 | diet | diet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tablets | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Grandad | type | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent type=Patient | ||||
| 2 | treat | present · passive | type | with tablets and diet; often property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with tablet=Theme |
Option 4
Grandad is braver and doesn't need them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 braver | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 braver | cop |
| 3 | braver | brave | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 need | cc |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 need | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 need | advmod |
| 7 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 braver | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 need | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Grandad | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not need | present · do-support | Grandad not said here | them = they | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
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