Test 2 · ★★★ · Food myths and fads
Emily's big sister says carbs are bad, so Emily skips bread and pasta and can't keep up at hockey. Why?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: big sister, carbs · What happens: say, be, not keep up · To what, where: hockey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 55 «Food myths and fads» 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: Emily's big sister says carbs are bad, so Emily skips bread and pasta and can't keep up at hockey.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Emily | case |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sister | amod |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | carbs | carb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bad | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bad | cop |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bread | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 bread | advmod |
| 11 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 skips | compound |
| 12 | skips | skip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bread | compound |
| 13 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pasta | cc |
| 15 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bread | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 keep | cc |
| 17 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 keep | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 keep | advmod |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 keep | compound:prt |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 hockey | case |
| 22 | hockey | hockey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Emily's big sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | carbs | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not keep up | can | Emily's big sister not said here | hockey | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: 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: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Carbs make legs heavy and slow in the second half
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carbs | carb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 make | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 slow | cc |
| 6 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heavy | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 half | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 half | det |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 half | amod |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 make | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Carbs | legs | the second half | heavy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leg=Product |
Option 2
Hockey sticks are too heavy without pasta
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hockey | hockey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sticks | compound |
| 2 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heavy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heavy | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 heavy | advmod |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 pasta | case |
| 7 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heavy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Hockey sticks | without pasta; heavy property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Starchy carbs are the main fuel for running
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Starchy | starchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 carbs | amod |
| 2 | carbs | carb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fuel | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fuel | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fuel | det |
| 5 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fuel | amod |
| 6 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 running | mark |
| 8 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 fuel | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Starchy carbs | the main fuel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
She ate too many carbs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 carbs | amod |
| 5 | carbs | carb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | She | many carbs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carb=Patient |
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