Test 8 · Healthy food, water and vitamins

Why is water important even though it gives no energy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, give · To what, where: energy

This is test 8 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 important	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 important	cop
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 important	compound
4	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gives	advmod
5	even	even	ADV	_	8 gives	advmod
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 gives	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gives	nsubj
8	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 energy	det
10	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gives	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						important property	tree rules
2	give	present	it	no energy					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It replaces our food completely

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	2 replaces	nsubj
2	replaces	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 food	nmod:poss
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 replaces	obj
5	completely	completely	ADV	_	2 replaces	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	replace	present	It	our food				completely property	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Co-Theme

Option 2

It gives us protein

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	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 gives	iobj
4	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	It	protein	us				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient protein=Theme

Option 3

It builds our bones

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	2 builds	nsubj
2	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bones	nmod:poss
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 builds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	It	our bones					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material bone=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It carries food in the blood and washes out waste

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	2 carries	nsubj
2	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carries	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 blood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 blood	det
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carries	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 washes	cc
8	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 carries	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 washes	compound:prt
10	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 washes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	It	food		the blood			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Value in blood=Location
2	wash out	present		waste					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=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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