Test 7 · What vitamins do

Why are vitamins A and D riskier to overdo than vitamin C?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, overdo · To what, where: vitamins

This is test 7 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 vitamins	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 vitamins	cop
3	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 riskier	nsubj
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 riskier	det
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 riskier	cc
6	D	D	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 riskier	nsubj
7	riskier	risky	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 overdo	mark
9	overdo	overdo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 riskier	xcomp
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 C	case
11	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 C	compound
12	C	C	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 overdo	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 riskier	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		vitamins					tree rules
2	overdo	to-infinitive						than vitamin C	tree rules

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

They are poisonous in any amount, even a tiny one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 poisonous	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	cop
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 amount	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 amount	det
6	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poisonous	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 one	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poisonous	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They			any amount		poisonous property	tree rules

Option 2

Vitamin C is not a real vitamin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 C	compound
2	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vitamin	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 vitamin	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 vitamin	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 vitamin	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 vitamin	amod
7	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Vitamin C	a real vitamin					tree rules

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

They are stored in the body and can build up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stored	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stored	aux:pass
3	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 body	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stored	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 build	cc
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 build	aux
9	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stored	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 build	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present · passive		They		the body			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in body=Location
2	build up	can							vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

A and D are only in sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 D	det
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 D	cc
3	D	D	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sweets	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sweets	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 sweets	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 sweets	case
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a D			sweets			tree rules

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