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Test 8 · ★★ · Food on the floor and kitchen rules

Zara swears the custard has a calming chemical because the class is quiet after lunch. What's a better explanation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zara, custard, class, better explanation · What happens: swear, have, be · To what, where: calming chemical

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Food on the floor and kitchen rules» 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: Zara swears the custard has a calming chemical because the class is quiet after lunch.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zara	Zara	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 swears	nsubj
2	swears	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 custard	det
4	custard	custard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 swears	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chemical	det
7	calming	calming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chemical	amod
8	chemical	chemical	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 quiet	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 class	det
11	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 quiet	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 quiet	cop
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 has	advcl
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 lunch	case
15	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 quiet	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 swears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	present	Zara						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	present	the custard	a calming chemical					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemical=Patient
3	is	present	the class				after lunch	quiet property	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.

Sentence 2: What's a better explanation?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 explanation	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 explanation	amod
5	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a better explanation						tree rules

The options

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

Lots of people feel a bit sleepy after lunch anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 people	case
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lots	nmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleepy	obl:unmarked
7	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 lunch	case
9	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obl
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 feel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Lots of people				after lunch	anyway, sleepy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

The chemical is real and the head teacher ordered it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chemical	det
2	chemical	chemical	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 real	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 real	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ordered	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 teacher	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teacher	compound
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ordered	nsubj
9	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 real	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ordered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the chemical					real property	tree rules
2	order	past	the head teacher	chemical					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

It's quiet because the custard is so sticky

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 quiet	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 quiet	cop
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 sticky	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 custard	det
6	custard	custard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sticky	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sticky	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 sticky	advmod
9	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 quiet	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					quiet property	tree rules
2	is	present	the custard					sticky property	tree rules

Option 4

The custard is too cold to let you talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 custard	det
2	custard	custard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cold	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 let	mark
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cold	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the custard					cold property	tree rules
2	let	to-infinitive	the custard not said here	you					tree rules
3	talk	infinitive	you not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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