Test 9 · Breakfast before a match and food after
Lucas brings nothing to a 5-hour tournament: «I'll just buy stuff at the canteen, eh». What could go wrong?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lucas, I · What happens: bring, buy, go · To what, where: nothing, stuff, canteen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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
Sentence 1: Lucas brings nothing to a 5-hour tournament: «I'll just buy stuff at the canteen, eh».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucas | Lucas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brings | nsubj |
| 2 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 brings | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tournament | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tournament | det |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 hour | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 5 | punct |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tournament | compound |
| 9 | tournament | tournament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brings | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 buy | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 buy | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 buy | nsubj |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 buy | aux |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 buy | advmod |
| 15 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 brings | parataxis |
| 16 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buy | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 canteen | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 canteen | det |
| 19 | canteen | canteen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buy | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 eh | punct |
| 21 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 15 buy | discourse |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 buy | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brings | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | Lucas | nothing | to a hour tournament | tree rules | |||
| 2 | buy in a quote | future | I | stuff | the canteen | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme at canteen=Asset |
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 could go wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 go | xcomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | could | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
He'll get too much fruit
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 get | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fruit | amod |
| 6 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | future | He | much fruit | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fruit=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, canteens always sell meals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 canteens | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | canteens | canteen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sell | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 sell | advmod |
| 5 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present | Nothing canteens | meals | always property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Theme |
Option 3
Canteens are never open
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canteens | canteen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 open | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | cop |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 open | advmod |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Canteens | open property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The canteen may only sell sweets and fizzy drinks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 canteen | det |
| 2 | canteen | canteen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sell | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sell | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 sell | advmod |
| 5 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sell | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drinks | cc |
| 8 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drinks | amod |
| 9 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sweets | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | may | the canteen | sweets and fizzy drinks | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme |
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