Test 2 · What vitamins do
Popeye eats spinach and gets huge muscles. What's the real story?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Popeye, real story · What happens: eat, get, be · To what, where: spinach, huge muscles
This is test 2 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: Popeye eats spinach and gets huge muscles.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Popeye | Popeye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 eats | nsubj |
| 2 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | spinach | spinach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eats | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gets | cc |
| 5 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 eats | conj |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 muscles | amod |
| 7 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gets | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 eats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Popeye | spinach | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spinach=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | present | Popeye not said here | huge muscles | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer muscle=Stimulus |
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's the real story?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the real story | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Only tinned spinach works
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 tinned | advmod |
| 2 | tinned | tin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spinach | amod |
| 3 | spinach | spinach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 works | nsubj |
| 4 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tin | participle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | work | present | tinned spinach | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Spinach really builds muscles instantly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spinach | spinach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 builds | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 builds | advmod |
| 3 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 builds | obj |
| 5 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 builds | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | Spinach | muscles | instantly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset muscle=Product |
Option 3
Spinach has no goodness at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spinach | spinach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 goodness | det |
| 4 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 goodness | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Spinach | no goodness | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodness=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Spinach is good food but its iron is poorly absorbed and gives no super-strength
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spinach | spinach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 food | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 food | cop |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 food | amod |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 absorbed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 iron | cc |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 iron | nmod:poss |
| 7 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 food | conj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 absorbed | aux:pass |
| 9 | poorly | poorly | ADV | _ | 10 absorbed | advmod |
| 10 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gives | cc |
| 12 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 absorbed | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 strength | det |
| 14 | super | super | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strength | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 super | punct |
| 16 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gives | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Spinach | good food but Spinach's iron | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | absorb | present · passive | good food but Spinach's iron | poorly property | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | present | no super strength | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
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