Test 9 · Chocolate and sweets

«it's past the best-before, so it'll make me sick right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, make · To what, where: me

This is test 9 of lesson 2 «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 best	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 best	expl
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 best	cop
4	past	past	ADP	_	6 best	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 best	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 before	punct
8	before	before	ADV	_	6 best	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 make	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 best	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 make	xcomp
16	right	right	ADV	_	20 right	advmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 make	advcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present			before, good property	tree rules
2	make in a quote	future	it	me	sick property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product
3	is	present			right 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, best-before dates are only about safety

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 best	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 best	punct
5	before	before	ADP	_	10 safety	case
6	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 safety	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 safety	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 safety	advmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 safety	case
10	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 best	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	dates				before safety		tree rules

Option 2

No, the dates are only there for decoration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dates	det
4	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 there	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 there	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 decoration	case
9	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 there	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the dates					for decoration; there property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Not necessarily: best-before is about quality, use-by on fresh food is about safety

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 necessarily	advmod
2	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	4 best	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct
6	before	before	ADP	_	9 quality	case
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 quality	cop
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 quality	case
9	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 best	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 use	punct
11	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 best	parataxis
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 food	punct
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 food	case
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 food	case
15	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 food	amod
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 safety	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 safety	cop
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 safety	case
19	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 use	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present		before quality		tree rules
2	use	infinitive				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	fresh food		about safety	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, it turns poisonous at midnight that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 turns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turns	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turns	nsubj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turns	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 midnight	case
7	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obl
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	it				day; midnight	poisonous property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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