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Test 9 · What really happens to things you swallow

Mia had a bad dream on a night she ate cheese. Does that prove cheese caused it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, that, cheese · What happens: have, eat, prove, cause · To what, where: bad dream, cheese, dream

This is test 9 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: Mia had a bad dream on a night she ate cheese.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dream	det
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dream	amod
5	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ate	nsubj
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 night	acl:relcl
11	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ate	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Mia	a bad dream			night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient
2	eat	past	Mia	cheese					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient

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: Does that prove cheese caused it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 prove	aux
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 prove	nsubj
3	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caused	nsubj
5	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prove	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caused	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 prove	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present · do-support	that						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	cause	past	cheese	dream					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, because dreams only come from fizzy drinks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 come	mark
4	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 drinks	case
8	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 drinks	amod
9	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	dreams			fizzy drinks			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from drink=Initial_Location

Option 2

Yes, because her mum said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	6 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	her mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, one bad dream after cheese is enough proof for any scientist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 proof	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 dream	nummod
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dream	amod
5	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 proof	nsubj
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 cheese	case
7	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dream	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 proof	cop
9	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 proof	amod
10	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 scientist	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 scientist	det
13	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 proof	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	one bad dream after cheese	enough proof				for any scientist	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No; one night proves nothing, a dream diary over weeks is better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 proves	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 proves	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 night	nummod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proves	nsubj
5	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 better	advcl
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 proves	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 diary	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 diary	det
9	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 diary	compound
10	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nothing	appos
11	over	over	ADP	_	12 weeks	case
12	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 diary	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 better	cop
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	one night	nothing					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2	is	present						good property	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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