Test 1 · Sore throats, ears and eyes

ear's killing me, mate says pour olive oil in it to cure it. yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ear · What happens: kill, say, pour, cure · To what, where: me, olive oil, mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 9 «Sore throats, ears and eyes» 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	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
2	's	's	PART	_	1 ear	case
3	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 ear	acl
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 killing	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ear	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
9	olive	olive	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 oil	compound
10	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pour	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pour	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cure	mark
14	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pour	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cure	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pour	punct
17	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 pour	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	kill	gerund	ear not said here	me		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	ear			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pour	present		olive oil	mate	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient
4	cure	to-infinitive		mate		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.

The options

Option 1

Yeah, hot oil works best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 hot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 oil	amod
4	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 works	nsubj
5	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 works	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	hot oil					well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

No, pour cold water in instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 pour	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pour	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	3 pour	compound:prt
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 pour	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour in	imperative	you not said here	cold water				instead property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, the warm oil kills all the germs right in there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 kills	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kills	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oil	det
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 oil	amod
5	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kills	nsubj
6	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 germs	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 germs	det
9	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kills	obj
10	right	right	ADV	_	12 there	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 there	case
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 kills	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	the warm oil	all germs					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, putting oil in won't cure an ear infection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 putting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 putting	punct
3	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 putting	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 cure	mark
6	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 cure	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 cure	advmod
8	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 putting	advcl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 infection	det
10	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 infection	compound
11	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	gerund		oil					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent oil=Goal
2	not cure	future		a ear infection					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer infection=Source

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