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Test 8 · The skeleton and muscles

Granny is told to eat more yoghurt and cheese. What are these foods mostly helping?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Granny, foods · What happens: tell, eat, be, help · To what, where: Granny, more yoghurt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 31 «The skeleton and muscles» 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: Granny is told to eat more yoghurt and cheese.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 yoghurt	amod
7	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cheese	cc
9	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 yoghurt	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		Granny					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	Granny not said here	more yoghurt and cheese					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yoghurt=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 are these foods mostly helping?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 helping	obl
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 foods	det
4	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 helping	nsubj
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	6 helping	advmod
6	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 helping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	help	gerund	this foods					mostly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Her hair, by making it curly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 making	punct
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 making	mark
5	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hair	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 making	obj
7	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 making	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		hair				curly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her bones, by giving them calcium

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bones	nmod:poss
2	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 calcium	nmod:poss
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 giving	punct
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 giving	mark
5	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bones	acl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 giving	iobj
7	calcium	calcium	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund	Her bones not said here		bones = bone				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Her eyes, by giving them light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 giving	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 giving	punct
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 giving	mark
5	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 giving	iobj
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund	Her eyes	light	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient light=Theme

Option 4

Her lungs, by giving them air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 lungs	nmod:poss
2	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 air	nmod:poss
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 giving	punct
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 giving	mark
5	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 lungs	acl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 giving	iobj
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund	Her lungs not said here		lungs = lung				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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