Test 11 · Breakfast before a match and food after

What would happen if a player ate a big plate of chips just before running?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: player · What happens: happen, eat, run · To what, where: big plate

This is test 11 of lesson 53 «Breakfast before a match and food after» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 ate	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 player	det
6	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	nsubj
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 plate	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plate	amod
10	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 chips	case
12	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 plate	nmod
13	just	just	ADV	_	15 running	advmod
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 running	mark
15	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 ate	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat a condition, not said to happen	past	a player	a big plate of chips	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient
3	run	gerund	a player not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would likely sit heavy and could make him feel sick

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	4 sit	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 sit	advmod
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sit	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 make	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
10	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 make	xcomp
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	would	It		heavy, likely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	could		him = he		tree rules
3	feel	infinitive	him = he not said here		sick property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Nothing, food doesn't affect running

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 food	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 affect	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 affect	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 affect	advmod
6	affect	affect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 affect	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not affect	present · do-support	Nothing food						tree rules
2	run	gerund	Nothing food not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He'd run twice as fast

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 run	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 run	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	He					fast, twice property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He'd never need to eat again

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	4 need	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	would	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here				again		vn eat-39.1-1 «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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