Test 1 · ★ · Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent

"grandma's bald so the chemo isn't working" — right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chemo · What happens: not work

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 33 «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bald	punct
2	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bald	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 grandma	case
4	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 working	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chemo	det
7	chemo	chemo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 working	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 working	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 working	advmod
10	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 bald	parataxis
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 working	punct
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 bald	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	4 bald	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bald	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work in a quote	present · progressive	the chemo						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Yes, bald means it has failed and stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 bald	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 failed	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 failed	aux
7	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 means	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stopped	cc
9	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 failed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	mean	present	bald	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fail	present · perfect	it	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stop	participle		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, hair loss doesn't mean it's failing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loss	compound
4	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mean	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mean	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 mean	advmod
7	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 failing	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 failing	aux
10	failing	fail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 mean	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mean	present · do-support	hair loss						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fail	present · progressive	loss						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No, she was always bald

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 bald	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bald	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bald	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 bald	advmod
6	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					always, bald property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, hair shows how well it works

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 shows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	nsubj
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 works	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 works	nsubj
8	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	hair						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	work	present	hair					well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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