Test 10 · ★ · Growing, skin, hair and food
Your little brother is wild at a birthday party, sugar-free drinks and all. What does that suggest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little brother, that · What happens: be, suggest · To what, where: birthday party
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 6 «Growing, skin, hair and food» 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: Your little brother is wild at a birthday party, sugar-free drinks and all.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wild | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wild | cop |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 party | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 party | det |
| 8 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 party | compound |
| 9 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wild | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drinks | punct |
| 11 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 free | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 sugar | punct |
| 13 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 drinks | amod |
| 14 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 party | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 all | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 party | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wild | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your little brother | a birthday party and free drinks | wild 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 does that suggest?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 suggest | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 suggest | aux |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 suggest | nsubj |
| 4 | suggest | suggest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 suggest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present · do-support | that | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Sugar-free drinks make kids even wilder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 free | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sugar | punct |
| 3 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drinks | amod |
| 4 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | nsubj |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 wilder | advmod |
| 8 | wilder | wild | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 make | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | free drinks | kids | wild property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material kid=Product |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The excitement of the party, not sugar, makes kids hyper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 excitement | det |
| 2 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 party | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 party | det |
| 5 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 excitement | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sugar | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 sugar | advmod |
| 8 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 party | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 excitement | punct |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 makes | obj |
| 12 | hyper | hyper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the excitement of the party and sugar | kids | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kid=Product | ||||
| 2 | excite | the party and sugar | nom excitement «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3
He must have eaten sugar somewhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 eaten | aux |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | obj |
| 6 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 eaten | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | must · perfect | He | sugar | somewhere property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |
Option 4
Sugar-free drinks are secretly full of sugar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 free | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sugar | punct |
| 3 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drinks | amod |
| 4 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 full | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 full | cop |
| 6 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 7 full | advmod |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sugar | case |
| 9 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | free drinks | of sugar; full, secretly property | tree rules |
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