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Test 5 · What really happens to things you swallow

Uncle Steve says, "Coffee stunts your growth, that's why I'm short!" Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Uncle Steve, Coffee, that, your · What happens: say, stunt, be, grow · To what, where: growth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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: Uncle Steve says, "Coffee stunts your growth, that's why I'm short!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Steve	compound
2	Steve	Steve	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stunts	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 stunts	punct
6	Coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stunts	nsubj
7	stunts	stunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 growth	nmod:poss
9	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stunts	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 why	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 why	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 why	cop
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 short	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 short	nsubj
15	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 short	cop
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stunts	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 short	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 stunts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	Uncle Steve						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stunt in a quote	present	Coffee	your growth					tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	that					why property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	Uncle Steve = steve					short property	tree rules
5	grow in a quote		your						nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=agent

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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1

He's right, coffee shrinks bones in children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shrinks	punct
5	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shrinks	nsubj
6	shrinks	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shrinks	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 children	case
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shrinks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	shrink	present	coffee	bones				in children	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 2

Coffee makes children grow faster than milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 milk	case
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Coffee	children				fast property	tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	children not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Coffee doesn't stunt growth, but it isn't good for kids' sleep

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stunt	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stunt	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stunt	advmod
4	stunt	stunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stunt	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 good	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 good	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 good	cop
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 good	advmod
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stunt	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 sleep	case
13	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sleep	nmod:poss
14	'	's	PART	_	13 kids	case
15	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stunt	present · do-support	Coffee	growth					tree rules
2	not is	present	Coffee					for kids's sleep; good property	tree rules
3	sleep		kids						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Coffee is the best drink for children before bed, as it warms them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drink	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 drink	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 drink	amod
5	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drink	nmod
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 warms	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 warms	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 warms	nsubj
13	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drink	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 warms	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Coffee	the best drink			before bed	for children	tree rules
2	warm	present	Coffee	children = child					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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