Test 11 · What really happens to things you swallow

"my nan says eat ur crusts or no pudding, they make hair curly" What's the best plan?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan, crusts · What happens: say, eat, make, be · To what, where: crusts, hair, best plan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 1 «What really happens to things you swallow» of the myths 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
6	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 crusts	nmod:poss
7	crusts	crust	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 pudding	cc
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 pudding	det
10	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crusts	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
13	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
15	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 make	xcomp
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 plan	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 plan	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 plan	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 plan	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 plan	amod
21	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 curly	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my nan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat in a quote	present		ur's crusts or no pudding		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Patient
3	make in a quote	present	crusts = crust	hair	curly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product
4	is a	present		the best plan		tree rules

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

Refuse the crusts and argue until pudding is cancelled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crusts	det
3	crusts	crust	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Refuse	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 argue	cc
5	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Refuse	conj
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 cancelled	mark
7	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cancelled	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cancelled	aux:pass
9	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Refuse	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	refuse	imperative	you not said here	the crusts	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Theme
2	argue speech: disagree	present	you not said here		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cancel	present · passive		pudding	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Hide them, because crusts are bad for hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hide	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bad	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 bad	mark
5	crusts	crust	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bad	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bad	cop
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hide	parataxis
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 hair	case
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	is	present	crusts					for hair; bad property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Eat them if you like; enjoy the trick, but hair won't change

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Eat	obj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 like	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
5	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Eat	advcl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 enjoy	punct
7	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Eat	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trick	det
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 enjoy	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 change	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 change	cc
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 change	nsubj
13	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 change	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 change	advmod
15	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Eat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	them = they	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	enjoy	infinitive	you not said here	the trick	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus
4	not change	future	hair		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Eat twice as many to get extra curly hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 many	advmod
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Eat	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 many	advcl
7	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hair	amod
8	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hair	amod
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	many					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient
2	get	to-infinitive	you not said here	extra curly hair					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hair=Stimulus

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