Test 5 · The optician and glasses
Little bro hates his patch and takes it off. Why should he keep it on?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little bro, bro · What happens: hate, take off, keep on · To what, where: patch
This is test 5 of lesson 27 «The optician and glasses» 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: Little bro hates his patch and takes it off.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bro | amod |
| 2 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hates | nsubj |
| 3 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 patch | nmod:poss |
| 5 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hates | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 takes | cc |
| 7 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hates | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 takes | obj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 takes | compound:prt |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hates | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | Little bro | bro's patch | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer patch=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take off | present | Little bro not said here | patch | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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: Why should he keep it on?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 keep | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 keep | compound:prt |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep on | should | bro | patch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It stops him squinting at the sun
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 | 2 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stops | obj |
| 4 | squinting | squint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stops | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 squinting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | It | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | squint | gerund | at the sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme |
Option 2
It's a punishment
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 | 4 punishment | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 punishment | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 punishment | det |
| 4 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a punishment | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It trains the brain to use his weaker eye
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 | 2 trains | nsubj |
| 2 | trains | train | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brain | det |
| 4 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trains | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 use | mark |
| 6 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 trains | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eye | nmod:poss |
| 8 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 eye | amod |
| 9 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | train | present | It | the brain | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent brain=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive | the brain not said here | his weaker eye | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
Option 4
It keeps germs out
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 | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 keeps | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 keeps | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep out | present | It | germs | out property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
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