Test 2 · ★ · Growing, skin, hair and food

"Mate, ate a Mars bar yesterday and got 3 spots today. Chocolate did it, 100%." Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, Chocolate · What happens: eat, get, do · To what, where: Mars bar, 3 spots, bar

This is test 2 · ★ 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: "Mate, ate a Mars bar yesterday and got 3 spots today.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
2	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mate	punct
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bar	det
6	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bar	compound
7	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
8	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
11	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 spots	nummod
12	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	obj
13	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obl:unmarked
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past	Mate	a Mars bar			yesterday		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Patient
2	get in a quote	past	Mate not said here	3 spots			today		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus

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: Chocolate did it, 100%."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 %	punct
5	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 %	nummod
6	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	2 did	obl:unmarked
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 %	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 %	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Chocolate	bar					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Sentence 3: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, each bar of chocolate gives you exactly three new spots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 gives	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bar	det
4	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 chocolate	case
6	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bar	nmod
7	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 gives	iobj
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 three	advmod
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 spots	nummod
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spots	amod
12	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	each bar of chocolate	three new spots	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient spot=Theme

Option 2

Chocolate spots go away if you eat more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spots	compound
2	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 eat	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 go	advcl
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	present	Chocolate spots					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat a condition, not said to happen	present	you	more					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Spots are mostly hormones and skin, one bar won't do that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hormones	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hormones	cop
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 hormones	advmod
4	hormones	hormone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 skin	cc
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hormones	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 bar	nummod
9	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	nsubj
10	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 do	advmod
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hormones	conj
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Spots	hormones and skin				mostly property	tree rules
2	not do	future	one bar	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

Option 4

Only dark chocolate is safe for skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 dark	advmod
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chocolate	amod
3	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 safe	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safe	cop
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 skin	case
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 safe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	dark chocolate					for skin; safe property	tree rules

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