Test 11 · ★★ · Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil

Mum takes cod-liver oil and a multivitamin with vitamin A. What's the worry?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: take, be · To what, where: liver oil, worry

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil» 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cod	cod	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 liver	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 cod	punct
5	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 oil	compound
6	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 multivitamin	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 multivitamin	det
9	multivitamin	multivitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 oil	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 A.	case
11	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 A.	compound
12	A.	A.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obl
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 worry	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 worry	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 worry	det
16	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 takes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	Mum	liver oil and a multivitamin				with vitamin A.	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme
2	is a	present		the worry					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

The oil cancels out the pill completely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 oil	det
2	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cancels	nsubj
3	cancels	cancel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 cancels	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pill	det
6	pill	pill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cancels	obj
7	completely	completely	ADV	_	3 cancels	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel out	present	the oil	the pill				completely property	tree rules

Option 2

Fish oil and pills explode together in the tummy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 explode	nsubj
2	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fish	conj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 pills	cc
4	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fish	conj
5	explode	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 explode	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 tummy	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tummy	det
9	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	present	Fish and oil and pills			the tummy		together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tummy=Location

Option 3

Nothing, vitamins never hurt anyone at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 vitamins	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hurt	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 hurt	advmod
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 hurt	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	past	Nothing vitamins	anyone		all			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Doubling up vitamin A can be harmful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doubling	double	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 harmful	csubj
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Doubling	compound:prt
3	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Doubling	obj
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 vitamin	det
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 harmful	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 harmful	cop
7	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	double up	gerund		a vitamin					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent vitamin=Patient
2	is	can	Doubling					harmful property	tree rules

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