Test 3 · What vitamins do

What would happen to a sailor on a year-long voyage with no fruit or vegetables?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen · To what, where: long voyage

This is test 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 sailor	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sailor	det
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	12 voyage	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 voyage	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 long	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 year	punct
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 voyage	amod
12	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 fruit	case
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 fruit	det
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 voyage	nmod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 vegetables	cc
17	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fruit	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a long voyage with no fruit or vegetables		to a sailor	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on voyage=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

He would get stronger bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bones	amod
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	He	stronger bones					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Stimulus

Option 2

Nothing, because ship biscuits have all the vitamins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 have	mark
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 biscuits	compound
5	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 vitamins	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vitamins	det
9	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	ship biscuits	all vitamins					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He could get scurvy from lack of vitamin C

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 lack	case
6	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 C	case
8	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 C	compound
9	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lack	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	could	He	scurvy		lack of vitamin C			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent scurvy=Theme from lack=Source
2	lack			vitamin C					nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

He would get night vision

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vision	compound
5	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	He	night vision					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vision=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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