Test 8 · ★★ · The right dose and never more than

Why does Dad read the syringe line at eye level?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dad · What happens: read · To what, where: syringe line, eye level

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 18 «The right dose and never more than» 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	4 read	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
3	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 read	nsubj
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 line	det
6	syringe	syringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 line	compound
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 level	case
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 level	compound
10	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present · do-support	Dad	the syringe line		eye level			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent line=Theme at level=Value

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

It looks nicer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	It					nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

The line moves up and down if you look down at it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 line	det
2	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moves	nsubj
3	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 moves	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 down	cc
6	down	down	ADV	_	4 up	conj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 look	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 look	nsubj
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 moves	advcl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 look	compound:prt
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move up	present	the line						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	look down a condition, not said to happen	present	you					at line	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Looking from above or below can make you misread it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 make	csubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 above	case
3	above	above	ADV	_	1 Looking	obl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 below	cc
5	below	below	ADV	_	3 above	conj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	misread	misread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 misread	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look	gerund			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from above=Theme
2	make	can	Looking	you	tree rules
3	misread	infinitive	you not said here	it	tree rules

Option 4

It's an old family habit his own dad taught him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 habit	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 habit	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 habit	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 habit	amod
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 habit	compound
6	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dad	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dad	amod
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taught	nsubj
10	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 habit	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 taught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a old family habit					tree rules
2	teach speech: other	past	his own dad	a old family habit not said here	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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