Test 1 · What vitamins do
Grandad: "eat ur carrots, pilots saw in the dark in the war". What really helped them?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad, pilots · What happens: eat, see, help · To what, where: carrots, dark
This is test 1 of lesson 21 «What vitamins do» 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: Grandad: "eat ur carrots, pilots saw in the dark in the war".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ur | your | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 carrots | nmod:poss |
| 6 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eat | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 8 | pilots | pilot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 dark | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dark | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 war | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 war | det |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | infinitive | Grandad | ur's carrots | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | pilots | the dark | in the war | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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: What really helped them?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 helped | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 helped | advmod |
| 3 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 helped | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 helped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | carrots = carrot | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Special night-vision carrots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 carrots | amod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vision | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 4 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carrots | compound |
| 5 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Radar, the carrot story was a cover
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Radar | radar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cover | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 4 | carrot | carrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | compound |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Radar | conj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cover | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cover | det |
| 8 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Radar and the carrot story | a cover | tree rules |
Option 3
Eating 20 carrots a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 carrots | nummod |
| 3 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Eating | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Eating | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund | 20 carrots | day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient |
Option 4
Carrot juice painted on their goggles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carrot | carrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 juice | compound |
| 2 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 juice | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 goggles | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 goggles | nmod:poss |
| 6 | goggles | goggle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 painted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | participle | Carrot juice not said here | their goggles | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on goggle=Destination |
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