Test 9 · Posture and eyes for sporty kids
Jack's optician says «get outside more». What would happen if Jack played outside 2 hours a day?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: optician, Jack · What happens: say, get, happen, play · To what, where: more · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 of lesson 58 «Posture and eyes for sporty kids» 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: Jack's optician says «get outside more».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 optician | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jack | case |
| 3 | optician | optician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Jack's optician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | infinitive | more | outside property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
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 would happen if Jack played outside 2 hours a day?
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 | _ | 6 played | mark |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 played | nsubj |
| 6 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 8 2 | advmod |
| 8 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 hours | nummod |
| 9 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 played | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hours | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | play a condition, not said to happen | past | Jack | hour | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
His eyes would definitely get worse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | His eyes | bad, definitely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
His glasses would vanish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 glasses | nmod:poss |
| 2 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vanish | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 vanish | aux |
| 4 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | would | His glasses | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nothing could change at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 change | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 change | aux |
| 3 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 change | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | could | Nothing | all | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
His chance of short sight would likely drop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 chance | nmod:poss |
| 2 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drop | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sight | amod |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chance | nmod |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 drop | aux |
| 7 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 8 drop | advmod |
| 8 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | would | His chance of short sight | likely property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chance | short sight | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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