Test 6 · Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks
Lily wants a blue sports drink for a 40-minute tennis match, «it's giving champion». What's best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily, blue sports, match · What happens: want, drink, give, be · To what, where: champion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 of lesson 51 «Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks» 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: Lily wants a blue sports drink for a 40-minute tennis match, «it's giving champion».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sports | det |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sports | amod |
| 5 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 drink | nsubj |
| 6 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wants | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 match | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 match | det |
| 9 | 40-minute | 40-minute | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 11 match | amod |
| 10 | tennis | tennis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 match | compound |
| 11 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drink | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 giving | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 giving | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 giving | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 giving | aux |
| 16 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wants | parataxis |
| 17 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 giving | obj |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 giving | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Lily | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drink | present | a blue sports | for a 40-minute tennis match | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | present · progressive | match | champion | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent champion=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: What's best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 best | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 best | cop |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Cola instead, it's cheaper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cola | Cola | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 6 cheaper | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 instead | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cheaper | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cheaper | cop |
| 6 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Cola | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | cheap, instead property | tree rules |
Option 2
The sports drink will make her play much better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sports | det |
| 2 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drink | nsubj |
| 3 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drink | xcomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | xcomp |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 better | advmod |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 play | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present | the sports | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | future | the sports not said here | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | play | infinitive | her = she not said here | good property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Two sports drinks for double power
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sports | nummod |
| 2 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drinks | compound |
| 3 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 power | case |
| 5 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 power | amod |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drinks | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Water; the sports drink adds sugar, not skill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 adds | nsubj |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 drink | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sports | det |
| 4 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drink | nsubj |
| 5 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Water | acl:relcl |
| 6 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 adds | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 skill | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 skill | advmod |
| 10 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sugar | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present | the sports | Water not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | present | Water | sugar and skill | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |
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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