Test 1 · Needles and brave faces
Mate: "injections are literally the worst pain on Earth". Truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: injections · What happens: be · To what, where: worst pain, Earth
This is test 1 of lesson 32 «Needles and brave faces» 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: Mate: "injections are literally the worst pain on Earth".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 pain | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 pain | punct |
| 4 | injections | injection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pain | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pain | cop |
| 6 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 9 pain | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pain | det |
| 8 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 pain | amod |
| 9 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Earth | case |
| 11 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 pain | nmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Earth | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | injections | the worst pain | Earth | literally property | 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: Truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Truth | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They can break bones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 break | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 break | aux |
| 3 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 break | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | can | They | bones | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient |
Option 2
They hurt for a whole week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 week | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 week | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 week | amod |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hurt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past | They | week | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Most are a quick scratch, stories get exaggerated
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 scratch | amod |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scratch | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 scratch | det |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scratch | amod |
| 5 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stories | punct |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scratch | conj |
| 8 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 exaggerated | aux:pass |
| 9 | exaggerated | exaggerate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 scratch | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a Most quick scratch and stories | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | exaggerate | present · passive | a Most quick scratch and stories not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
He's right, nothing on Earth hurts more than an injection
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurts | punct |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 hurts | nsubj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Earth | case |
| 7 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | conj |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 hurts | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 injection | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 injection | det |
| 12 | injection | injection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 more | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurt | present | nothing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
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