Test 7 · Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"
Auntie in Cape Town: "Zero sugar, so it's lekker AND healthy, hey?" What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sugar · What happens: be · To what, where: lekker
This is test 7 of lesson 176 «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» of the world 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: Auntie in Cape Town: "Zero sugar, so it's lekker AND healthy, hey?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auntie | auntie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Town | case |
| 3 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Town | compound |
| 4 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Auntie | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 sugar | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sugar | punct |
| 7 | Zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sugar | nummod |
| 8 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Auntie | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lekker | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 lekker | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lekker | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lekker | cop |
| 13 | lekker | lekker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sugar | appos |
| 14 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 healthy | cc |
| 15 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lekker | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hey | punct |
| 17 | hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 13 lekker | discourse |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 lekker | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sugar | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | sugar | lekker | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | sugar not said here | 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 is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Sweetener makes a drink count as fruit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweetener | sweetener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 count | det |
| 4 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 count | compound |
| 5 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 fruit | case |
| 7 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Sweetener | a drink count | as fruit | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset count=Product |
Option 2
It's healthy, because there is no sugar in it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 healthy | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 healthy | cop |
| 3 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 is | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 healthy | conj |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 sugar | det |
| 9 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sugar | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | healthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | no sugar in it | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Zero sugar can still mean sweetened, coloured fizzy water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sugar | nummod |
| 2 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 mean | advmod |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | sweetened | sweeten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 mean | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 coloured | punct |
| 8 | coloured | colour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sweetened | conj |
| 9 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sweetened | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | Zero sugar | still | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sweeten not said to happen | participle | Zero sugar not said here | fizzy water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | colour | participle | Zero sugar not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
Every fizzy drink is healthy if it tastes lekker
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 drink | det |
| 2 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drink | amod |
| 3 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 healthy | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 healthy | cop |
| 5 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 tastes | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tastes | nsubj |
| 8 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 healthy | ccomp |
| 9 | lekker | lekker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tastes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | every fizzy drink | healthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | taste a condition, not said to happen | present | drink | lekker | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme lekker=Attribute |
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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