Test 6 · What really happens to things you swallow

In a cartoon, a sailor eats a tin of spinach and his arms swell up at once. What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sailor, arms · What happens: eat, swell up, be · To what, where: tin, cartoon

This is test 6 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: In a cartoon, a sailor eats a tin of spinach and his arms swell up at once.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eats	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sailor	det
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eats	nsubj
7	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tin	det
9	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eats	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 spinach	case
11	spinach	spinach	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tin	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 swell	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 arms	nmod:poss
14	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 swell	nsubj
15	swell	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eats	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 swell	compound:prt
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 swell	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	a sailor	a tin of spinach		a cartoon			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tin=Patient
2	swell up	present	sailor's arms						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, spinach really works that fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 works	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spinach	punct
3	spinach	spinach	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 works	advmod
5	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 works	obj
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 works	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Nothing	that				fast property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent that=Material

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Spinach is healthy, but muscles take months of exercise to grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spinach	spinach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 healthy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 healthy	cop
3	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 take	cc
6	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 healthy	conj
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 exercise	case
10	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 months	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 grow	mark
12	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 take	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Spinach		healthy property	tree rules
2	take	present	muscles	month		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	grow	to-infinitive	muscles not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It only works with fresh spinach, not the kind you get out of a tin

The tree, 15 words

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	3 works	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 spinach	case
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spinach	amod
6	spinach	spinach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kind	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 kind	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kind	det
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spinach	appos
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
12	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 kind	acl:relcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 tin	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 tin	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tin	det
16	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It					with fresh spinach	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with spinach=Co-Agent
2	get out	present	you	a tin					tree rules

Option 4

It should be his legs, not his arms

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 legs	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 legs	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 legs	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 legs	nmod:poss
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 arms	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 arms	advmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arms	nmod:poss
9	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 legs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	It	his legs and his arms					tree rules

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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