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Test 2 · ★★ · Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow

Sashko's granny says a draught gave him a cold. What is the scientific truth?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: granny, draught, scientific truth · What happens: say, give, be · To what, where: cold, Sashko · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts — today and tomorrow» of the Ukrainian street 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: Sashko's granny says a draught gave him a cold.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sashko	Sashko	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 granny	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sashko	case
3	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 draught	det
6	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cold	det
10	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Sashko's granny						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	past	a draught	a cold	Sashko				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cold=Theme

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 is the scientific truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 truth	det
4	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 truth	amod
5	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the scientific truth						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Colds come from viruses, not from draughts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 viruses	case
4	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 draughts	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 draughts	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 draughts	case
8	draughts	draught	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Colds			viruses		from draughts	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from virus=Initial_Location from draught=Destination

Option 2

Open windows cause flu every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 windows	amod
2	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cause	nsubj
3	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	flu	flu	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cause	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cause	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Open windows	flu			time		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition flu=Patient

Option 3

Cold air turns into germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 air	amod
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 germs	case
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Cold air			germs			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into germ=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Draughts always cause colds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Draughts	draught	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cause	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 cause	advmod
3	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Draughts	colds				always property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cold=Patient

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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