Test 5 · ★★ · Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil
Liam swears fish oil made him top in spelling. Best reply?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Liam, fish oil · What happens: swear, make · To what, where: Liam, spelling
This is test 5 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: Liam swears fish oil made him top in spelling.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liam | Liam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 swears | nsubj |
| 2 | swears | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 oil | compound |
| 4 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swears | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | obj |
| 7 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 made | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 spelling | case |
| 9 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | present | Liam | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past | fish oil | Liam | spelling | top property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product |
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: Best reply?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 reply | amod |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 reply | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It only works for spelling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 works | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 works | advmod |
| 3 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 spelling | case |
| 5 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 works | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | It | for spelling | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for spelling=Beneficiary |
Option 2
Fish oil is proven to make every kid top of the whole class
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 oil | compound |
| 2 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proven | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 proven | aux:pass |
| 4 | proven | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 proven | advcl |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 top | det |
| 8 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 top | compound |
| 9 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 class | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 class | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 class | amod |
| 13 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 top | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | present · passive | Fish oil | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | every kid top of the whole class | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset top=Product |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Studies don't show fish oil makes healthy kids cleverer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Studies | study | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 show | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 show | advmod |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 oil | compound |
| 6 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | ccomp |
| 8 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kids | amod |
| 9 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 makes | obj |
| 10 | cleverer | clever | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not show | present · do-support | Studies | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | present | fish oil | healthy kids | clever property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material kid=Product |
Option 4
Spelling comes from carrots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 carrots | case |
| 4 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Spelling | carrots | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from carrot=Initial_Location |
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