Test 4 · What really happens to things you swallow

"Shut up, Rory, apple pips are totally harmless and there's nothing in them." Who is closer to the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: apple pips, nothing · What happens: shut up, be · To what, where: Rory

This is test 4 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

Sentence 1: "Shut up, Rory, apple pips are totally harmless and there's nothing in them."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Shut	punct
2	Shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 Shut	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Rory	punct
5	Rory	Rory	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Shut	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 harmless	punct
7	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pips	compound
8	pips	pip	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 harmless	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 harmless	cop
10	totally	totally	ADV	_	11 harmless	advmod
11	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Shut	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 's	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 's	expl
14	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 harmless	conj
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 's	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 's	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Shut	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	participle		Rory			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	apple pips			harmless, totally property	tree rules
3	be in a quote	present	nothing		there	in pips = pip	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=Location

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: Who is closer to the truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 closer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 closer	cop
3	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 truth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closer	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 closer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						to the truth; close property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Neither: the substance is real, but the amount in a pip is tiny

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 real	advmod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 real	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 substance	det
4	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 real	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 real	cop
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tiny	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 tiny	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 amount	det
10	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tiny	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pip	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pip	det
13	pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 amount	nmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tiny	cop
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 real	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the substance					neither, real property	tree rules
2	is	present	the amount in a pip					tiny property	tree rules

Option 2

Both: pips are harmless and also deadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 pips	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Both	punct
3	pips	pip	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harmless	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 harmless	cop
5	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 deadly	cc
7	also	also	ADV	_	8 deadly	advmod
8	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 harmless	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	both pips					harmless property	tree rules
2	be		both pips not said here						tree rules

Option 3

The mate shouting at Rory: pips have nothing in them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mate	det
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	nsubj
3	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 mate	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 Rory	case
5	Rory	Rory	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shouting	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
7	pips	pip	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 have	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund	the mate not said here			Rory			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	the mate	nothing				in pips = pip	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient

Option 4

Rory: one pip will poison you straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rory	Rory	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 poison	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 poison	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pip	nummod
4	pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poison	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 poison	aux
6	poison	poison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 poison	obj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	6 poison	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	future	Rory	you				away property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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