Test 6 · Healthy food, water and vitamins
Long ago, a ship carried lemons for the sailors. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ship · What happens: carry · To what, where: lemons
This is test 6 of lesson 36 «Healthy food, water and vitamins» 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: Long ago, a ship carried lemons for the sailors.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ago | advmod |
| 2 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 carried | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ago | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | nsubj |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | lemons | lemon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carried | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 sailors | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sailors | det |
| 10 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carried | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | a ship | lemons | for the sailors; ago property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemon=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: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Lemons gave vitamin C and kept away scurvy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lemons | lemon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | vitamin | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 4 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 vitamin | flat |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 kept | cc |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gave | conj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 kept | advmod |
| 8 | scurvy | scurvy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Lemons | vitamin | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep away | participle | Lemons not said here | scurvy | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scurvy=Theme |
Option 2
Lemons kept the water from freezing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lemons | lemon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 freezing | case |
| 6 | freezing | freezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Lemons | the water | freezing | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer water=Beneficiary from freezing=Eventuality |
Option 3
Lemons gave the sailors protein
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lemons | lemon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sailors | det |
| 4 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 protein | compound |
| 5 | protein | protein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Lemons | sailors protein | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protein=Theme |
Option 4
Lemons were used to clean the deck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lemons | lemon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 used | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | aux:pass |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 clean | mark |
| 5 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 deck | det |
| 7 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clean | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | Lemons | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | clean | to-infinitive | the deck | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent deck=Patient |
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