Test 8 · ★ · Warming up, stitches and cramp
"Swim within an hour of eating and you'll get cramp and drown, my nan said." Truth?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, hour, nan · What happens: swim, eat, get, drown, say · To what, where: cramp · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 37 «Warming up, stitches and cramp» 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: "Swim within an hour of eating and you'll get cramp and drown, my nan said."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Swim | punct |
| 2 | Swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | within | within | ADP | _ | 5 hour | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hour | det |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Swim | obl |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 eating | mark |
| 7 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hour | acl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Swim | conj |
| 12 | cramp | cramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drown | cc |
| 14 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 get | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 nan | nmod:poss |
| 17 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 drown | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Swim | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Swim | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim in a quote | imperative | you not said here | hour | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | gerund | a hour not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | future | you | cramp | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cramp=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | drown in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | my nan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.
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 · ✓ the right answer
There's no good evidence for the one-hour rule
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 evidence | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 evidence | amod |
| 5 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 rule | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rule | det |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hour | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 10 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rule | compound |
| 11 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 evidence | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no good evidence for the hour rule | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Only fruit causes cramp in water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 causes | advmod |
| 2 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 causes | nsubj |
| 3 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cramp | cramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 causes | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 causes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | fruit | cramp | water | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cramp=Patient |
Option 3
It's proven, you always have to wait a full hour
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 | 3 proven | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 proven | aux:pass |
| 3 | proven | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 have | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 proven | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wait | mark |
| 9 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hour | det |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hour | amod |
| 12 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wait | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | present · passive | It | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | present | you | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait | to-infinitive | you not said here | hour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
You must wait three hours after a big meal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wait | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wait | aux |
| 3 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hours | nummod |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 meal | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 meal | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 meal | amod |
| 9 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wait | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | must | You | after a big meal; hour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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