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Test 11 · ★★ · Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests

Ruby's coach says bananas stop cramp. What's fair to say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: coach, bananas · What happens: say, stop, be · To what, where: cramp · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» 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: Ruby's coach says bananas stop cramp.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 coach	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ruby	case
3	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stop	nsubj
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	cramp	cramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ruby's coach						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	present	bananas	cramp					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality cramp=Eventuality

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 fair to say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 fair	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fair	cop
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fair	csubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fair property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Bananas cause cramp, never eat them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cause	nsubj
2	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cramp	cramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cause	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cause	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Bananas	cramp					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cramp=Patient
2	not eat	infinitive	Bananas not said here	Bananas = banana					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

The coach is lying to sell bananas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coach	det
2	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sell	mark
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lying	xcomp
7	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present · progressive	the coach						tree rules
2	sell	to-infinitive	the coach not said here	bananas					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Theme

Option 3

Cramp only ever happens to people who refuse to eat bananas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cramp	cramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 happens	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 happens	advmod
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happens	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 refuse	nsubj
8	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 people	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 refuse	xcomp
11	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Cramp				ever	to people	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	refuse	present	people						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not eat	to-infinitive	people not said here	bananas					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bananas are a good snack, but they don't really stop cramp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 snack	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 snack	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snack	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snack	amod
5	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stop	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 stop	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stop	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stop	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 stop	advmod
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 stop	advmod
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 snack	conj
13	cramp	cramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bananas	a good snack					tree rules
2	not stop	present · do-support	Bananas = banana	cramp					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality cramp=Eventuality

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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