Test 6 · ★★ · Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil

Why might a child who stays indoors in a dark northern winter need vitamin D more than one in sunny Spain in summer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: stay, need · To what, where: vitamin D

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 need	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 need	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 need	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stays	nsubj
6	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 child	acl:relcl
7	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	6 stays	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 winter	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 winter	det
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 winter	amod
11	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 winter	amod
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stays	obl
13	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 D	compound
15	D	D	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 need	obj
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	18 one	advmod
17	than	than	ADP	_	16 more	fixed
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 need	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 Spain	case
20	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Spain	amod
21	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 one	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 summer	case
23	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 one	nmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	a child				winter	indoors property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	might	a child	vitamin D					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

Spain puts vitamin D in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 puts	nsubj
2	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 D	compound
4	D	D	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 puts	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 puts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present	Spain	vitamin D		the sea			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent d=Theme in sea=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Strong sunlight lets skin make vitamin D, weak winter light doesn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sunlight	amod
2	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lets	nsubj
3	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lets	xcomp
6	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 D	compound
7	D	D	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 does	punct
9	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 light	amod
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 light	compound
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 does	nsubj
12	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lets	conj
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 does	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	present	Strong sunlight		tree rules
2	make	infinitive	skin	vitamin D	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset d=Product
3	not do	present	weak winter light		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Cold weather destroys bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 weather	amod
2	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 destroys	nsubj
3	destroys	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 destroys	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	present	Cold weather	bones					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Children in the north eat no food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 north	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 north	det
4	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Children	nmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 food	det
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Children in the north	no food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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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