Test 6 · ★ · The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic
Josh had keyhole surgery for his appendix and says "it was a tiny op". Fair?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Josh, surgery · What happens: have, say, be · To what, where: keyhole surgery, tiny op · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 28 «The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic» 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: Josh had keyhole surgery for his appendix and says "it was a tiny op".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | keyhole | keyhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 surgery | compound |
| 4 | surgery | surgery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 appendix | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 appendix | nmod:poss |
| 7 | appendix | appendix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 says | cc |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 op | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 op | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 op | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 op | det |
| 14 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 op | amod |
| 15 | op | op | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | ccomp |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 op | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Josh | keyhole surgery | for Josh's appendix | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surgery=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Josh not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | surgery | a tiny op | 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.
Sentence 2: Fair?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fair | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, it was done through his mouth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 done | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | it | his mouth | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
Option 2
No, keyhole means no cuts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | keyhole | keyhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 cuts | det |
| 6 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 means | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | keyhole | no cuts | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Topic |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The cuts were small but the work inside was a real operation
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cuts | det |
| 2 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 small | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 small | cop |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 operation | amod |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 work | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 work | det |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 small | conj |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 7 work | advmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 operation | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 operation | det |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 operation | amod |
| 12 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cuts | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a small real operation | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, they did almost nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 nothing | advmod |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 did | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | they | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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