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Test 8 · ★ · Growing, skin, hair and food

A cereal box says "Breakfast is the most important meal!" What's a smart question to ask?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cereal box, Breakfast · What happens: say, be, ask · To what, where: important meal, smart question · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: A cereal box says "Breakfast is the most important meal!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 box	compound
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 meal	punct
6	Breakfast	Breakfast	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 meal	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 meal	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meal	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 important	advmod
10	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 meal	amod
11	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 meal	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 meal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	a cereal box						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Breakfast	the important meal					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's a smart question to ask?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 question	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 question	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 question	det
4	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 question	amod
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ask	mark
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 question	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 question	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a smart question					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

How many colours are on the box?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 colours	amod
3	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 box	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 box	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 box	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 box	det
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 box	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	many colours			the box			tree rules

Option 2

Why don't they say that lunch is the most important meal instead?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 meal	mark
7	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 meal	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 meal	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 meal	det
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 important	advmod
11	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 meal	amod
12	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	ccomp
13	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	they					instead property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	lunch	the important meal					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Who is saying this, and are they selling something?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 saying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 saying	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 selling	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 selling	cc
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 selling	aux
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 selling	nsubj
9	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saying	conj
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 selling	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive		this					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
2	sell	present · progressive	they	something					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme

Option 4

Is the box made of recycled paper?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 box	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 box	det
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 box	acl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 paper	case
6	recycled	recycle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 paper	amod
7	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 box	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the box					tree rules
2	make	participle		the box not said here				of recycled paper	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	recycle	participle							tree rules

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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