Test 3 · Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps
«Hospitals are proper grim, people peg it there,» says a boy in Birmingham (peg it = die). What's the truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hospitals, people, boy, truth · What happens: be, peg, say, die · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 of lesson 71 «Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps» of the religion ethics 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: «Hospitals are proper grim, people peg it there,» says a boy in Birmingham (peg it = die).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 grim | punct |
| 2 | Hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grim | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grim | cop |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grim | amod |
| 5 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 peg | punct |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 peg | nsubj |
| 8 | peg | peg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grim | parataxis |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 peg | obj |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 peg | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 peg | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Birmingham | case |
| 17 | Birmingham | Birmingham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 boy | nmod |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 peg | punct |
| 19 | peg | peg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 says | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 peg | obj |
| 21 | = | = | SYM | _ | 22 die | punct |
| 22 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 peg | conj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 peg | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grim | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Hospitals | grim property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | peg in a quote | present | people | it | there | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | a boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | peg | infinitive | it | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 5 | die | infinitive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Hospitals are only for people who are dying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 people | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 people | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 dying | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dying | aux |
| 8 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 people | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Hospitals | for people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | present · progressive | people | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 2
Nobody ever comes out of hospital alive, not even the doctors
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 comes | advmod |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 hospital | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hospital | case |
| 6 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obl |
| 7 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 comes | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 doctors | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 doctors | advmod |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 doctors | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 doctors | det |
| 12 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | present | Nobody | hospital | ever | the doctors obl; alive property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hospital=Result |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Most people in hospital get better and go home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 hospital | case |
| 4 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 get | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 go | cc |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | conj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Most people in hospital | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | Most people in hospital not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Visiting a hospital makes children ill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 makes | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hospital | det |
| 3 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Visiting | obj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | gerund | a hospital | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hospital=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Visiting | children | ill property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product |
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