Test 9 · ★★ · Food on the floor and kitchen rules
Ivy's mum says eat your crusts because "that's where all the vitamins are". What's the honest truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, that, honest truth · What happens: say, eat, be · To what, where: crusts · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Ivy's mum says eat your crusts because "that's where all the vitamins are".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ivy | Ivy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ivy | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 crusts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | crusts | crust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eat | obj |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 where | mark |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 where | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 where | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 where | cop |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 eat | advmod |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 vitamins | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vitamins | det |
| 15 | vitamins | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 where | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 " | cop |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 vitamins | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Ivy's mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | eat | infinitive | your crusts | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | where 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 the honest truth?
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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 4 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 truth | amod |
| 5 | truth | truth | 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 | the honest truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Crusts have no goodness at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crusts | crust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 goodness | det |
| 4 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 have | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Crusts | no goodness | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodness=Patient |
Option 2
Crusts are poisonous if burnt even a little
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crusts | crust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 poisonous | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 poisonous | cop |
| 3 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 burnt | mark |
| 5 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 poisonous | advcl |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 little | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 little | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 burnt | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Crusts | poisonous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burnt a condition, not said to happen | participle | Crusts not said here | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Crust and middle have almost the same goodness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 middle | cc |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Crust | conj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 goodness | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 goodness | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 goodness | amod |
| 8 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Crust and middle | the same goodness | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodness=Patient |
Option 4
Crusts have all the vitamins, the middle has none
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crusts | crust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 vitamins | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vitamins | det |
| 5 | vitamins | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 middle | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Crusts | all vitamins | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the middle | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient |
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