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Test 7 · ★★ · How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks

A smoothie bottle says "SUPERFOOD — fights disease!" What should you think?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: smoothie bottle, you · What happens: say, think · To what, where: SUPERFOOD · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 30 «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» 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: A smoothie bottle says "SUPERFOOD — fights disease!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bottle	det
2	smoothie	smoothie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bottle	compound
3	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 SUPERFOOD	punct
6	SUPERFOOD	superfood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obj
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 disease	punct
8	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 disease	compound
9	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 SUPERFOOD	conj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 SUPERFOOD	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 SUPERFOOD	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a smoothie bottle	SUPERFOOD and fights disease					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent superfood=Topic

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 should you think?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 think	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	should	you						vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

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

It's a selling word; it may be healthy but cures nothing

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 word	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	selling	selling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	compound
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 healthy	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 healthy	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 healthy	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 healthy	cop
10	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	parataxis
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 cures	cc
12	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 healthy	conj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 cures	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a selling word					tree rules
2	is	may	word					healthy property	tree rules
3	cure	present	word not said here	nothing					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer nothing=Source

Option 2

It must cure illness, it says so on the bottle

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 cure	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cure	aux
3	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cure	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cure	advcl
8	so	so	ADV	_	7 says	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bottle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bottle	det
11	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	must	It	illness					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer illness=Source
2	say speech: assert	present	illness			the bottle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It's poison, because it's an advert

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 poison	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poison	cop
3	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 advert	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 advert	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 advert	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 advert	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 advert	det
9	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poison	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	poison and a advert					tree rules
2	is a	present	it	a advert					tree rules

Option 4

It's medicine, so you need a doctor's note

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 medicine	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 medicine	cop
3	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 need	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 need	nsubj
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 medicine	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 doctor	det
9	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 note	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 doctor	case
11	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	medicine					tree rules
2	need	present	you	a doctor's note					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot note=Theme
3	note		a doctor						nom note «communication transitive»: poss=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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