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Test 7 · ★ · Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn

Harry: "Did your dad drink milk as a baby giraffe, Grandad?" What is he poking fun at?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Harry · What happens: do, drink, poke · To what, where: dad, milk, fun

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 180 «Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn» 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: Harry: "Did your dad drink milk as a baby giraffe, Grandad?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Harry	Harry	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 drink	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Did	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Did	punct
4	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Harry	acl:relcl
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Did	obj
7	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drink	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 giraffe	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 giraffe	det
11	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 giraffe	compound
12	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drink	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Grandad	punct
14	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 giraffe	appos
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 Grandad	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 giraffe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	past	Harry not said here	your dad					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Eventuality
2	drink in a quote	present	Harry	milk				as a baby giraffe	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient

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 he poking fun at?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 poking	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poking	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poking	nsubj
4	poking	poke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poking	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	5 fun	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 poking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	present · progressive	Harry	fun					tree rules

The options

Option 1

His grandad being very tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 grandad	nmod:poss
2	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tall	nsubj
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 tall	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 tall	advmod
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	His grandad					tall property	tree rules

Option 2

Milk being good food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 food	nsubj
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 food	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund	Milk	good food					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The idea that baby giraffes drink milk every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 drink	mark
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 giraffes	compound
5	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drink	nsubj
6	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 idea	acl
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	baby giraffes	milk			night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The idea that milk alone made the family tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 made	mark
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 milk	advmod
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 family	det
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the idea	the family				tall property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset family=Product

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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