Test 10 · ★ · Colds, coughs and the weather

Why is the vitamin C story a good lesson about famous people?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: vitamin C story

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 4 «Colds, coughs and the weather» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 story	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 story	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
4	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	compound
5	C	C	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 story	compound
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lesson	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lesson	amod
9	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	appos
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 people	case
11	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lesson	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the vitamin C story					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Famous people always test their ideas on themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 test	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 test	advmod
4	test	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ideas	nmod:poss
6	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 test	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 test	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	present	Famous people	people's ideas				on people; always property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Even a famous scientist can be wrong outside his own work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Even	even	ADV	_	7 wrong	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 scientist	det
3	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scientist	amod
4	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrong	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	outside	outside	ADP	_	11 work	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 work	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 work	amod
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	a famous scientist					outside his own work; wrong property	tree rules
2	work		his = he						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Famous scientists are never wrong about anything at all, ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 scientists	amod
2	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrong	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 wrong	advmod
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 anything	case
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 wrong	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 anything	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ever	punct
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 wrong	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Famous scientists					about anything; wrong property	tree rules

Option 4

Vitamins were invented by a famous scientist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 invented	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invented	aux:pass
3	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 scientist	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 scientist	det
6	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scientist	amod
7	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invented	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive	a famous scientist	Vitamins					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/4-colds-coughs-and-the-weather/t10/