Test 3 · Burns, sunburn and stings
In a film, a man pees on a jellyfish sting to cure it. What's the truth?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: man, truth · What happens: pee, cure, be · To what, where: film, sting
This is test 3 of lesson 6 «Burns, sunburn and stings» 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: In a film, a man pees on a jellyfish sting to cure it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 film | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 film | det |
| 3 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pees | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 film | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pees | nsubj |
| 7 | pees | pee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 sting | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sting | det |
| 10 | jellyfish | jellyfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sting | compound |
| 11 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pees | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cure | mark |
| 13 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pees | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cure | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pees | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pee | present | a man | a film | on a jellyfish sting | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on sting=Destination | |||
| 2 | cure | to-infinitive | a man not said here | sting | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source |
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 the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It works but only in the sea
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 | 2 works | nsubj |
| 2 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 sea | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 sea | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 works | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | It | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It does not help and can make some stings worse
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 help | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 help | advmod |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 make | cc |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | conj |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 stings | det |
| 9 | stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | present · do-support | It | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | can | some stings | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sting=Product |
Option 3
It is the best cure, every lifeguard says so
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 | 5 cure | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cure | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cure | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 cure | amod |
| 5 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 lifeguard | det |
| 8 | lifeguard | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cure | acl:relcl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 says | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the best cure | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | every lifeguard | the best cure not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cure=Topic |
Option 4
It works if done quickly enough
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 | 2 works | nsubj |
| 2 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 done | mark |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 works | advcl |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 works | advmod |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 2 works | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | It | enough, quickly property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | participle | vn act-114-1 «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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