Test 8 · ★★ · Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil
Cousin eats only beige food. What did the doctor most likely do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cousin · What happens: eat, do · To what, where: beige food
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Cousin eats only beige food.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eats | nsubj |
| 2 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 food | advmod |
| 4 | beige | beige | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 food | compound |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eats | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 eats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Cousin | beige food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
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: What did the doctor most likely do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doctor | det |
| 4 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 likely | advmod |
| 6 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 7 do | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | likely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Suggested a multivitamin and tiny tastes of new food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 multivitamin | det |
| 3 | multivitamin | multivitamin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Suggested | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tastes | cc |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tastes | amod |
| 6 | tastes | taste | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 multivitamin | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 food | case |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 food | amod |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tastes | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | past | a multivitamin and tiny tastes of new food | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent multivitamin=Topic | |||||
| 2 | taste | new food | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
Banned all food but beige
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 food | det |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Banned | obj |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 beige | cc |
| 5 | beige | beige | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 food | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ban | participle | all food but beige | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer food=Theme |
Option 3
Said fussy eaters stay fussy forever, so there's nothing to do
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | fussy | fussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eaters | amod |
| 3 | eaters | eater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 5 | fussy | fussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stay | xcomp |
| 6 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 5 fussy | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 's | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 's | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 's | expl |
| 10 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Said | parataxis |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 's | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 nothing | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | stay | present | fussy eaters | fussy property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Gave him an operation
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Gave | iobj |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 operation | det |
| 4 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a operation | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient operation=Theme |
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