Test 6 · ★ · How medicines work
Aunt felt better on a sugar pill in a trial. Was she faking?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Aunt · What happens: feel, fake · To what, where: sugar pill
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 17 «How medicines work» 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: Aunt felt better on a sugar pill in a trial.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 pill | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pill | det |
| 6 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pill | compound |
| 7 | pill | pill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 trial | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 trial | det |
| 10 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Aunt | a sugar pill | in a trial; good property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in trial=Attribute |
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: Was she faking?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 faking | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 faking | nsubj |
| 3 | faking | fake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 faking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fake | past · progressive | Aunt | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
No, sugar cures everything if you believe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 sugar | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cures | nsubj |
| 4 | cures | cure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 cures | obj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 believe | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 believe | nsubj |
| 8 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cures | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | present | sugar | everything | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer everything=Source | ||||
| 2 | believe a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Yes, sugar is a real medicine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 medicine | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 medicine | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 medicine | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 medicine | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 medicine | amod |
| 7 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sugar | a real medicine | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, she was lying to the doctors
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 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lying | aux |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 doctors | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 doctors | det |
| 8 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | she | to the doctors | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, people can really feel better because they expect to
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 feel | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 feel | aux |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 feel | advmod |
| 6 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 feel | xcomp |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 expect | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 expect | nsubj |
| 10 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 feel | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 expect | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | can | people | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | expect | present | people | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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