Test 9 · Healthy food, water and vitamins

why do sailors long ago get sick on ships with no fruit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sailors · What happens: get · To what, where: ships

This is test 9 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	6 get	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
3	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 ago	advmod
5	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 ships	case
9	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 fruit	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 fruit	det
12	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · do-support	sailors			ships		with no fruit; ago, sick property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on ship=Source

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 · ✓ the right answer

They lacked vitamin C and got scurvy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lacked	nsubj
2	lacked	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lacked	obj
4	C	C	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 vitamin	flat
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 got	cc
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lacked	conj
7	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lack	past	They	vitamin					tree rules
2	get	past	They not said here	scurvy					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scurvy=Stimulus

Option 2

The sea salt made them sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 salt	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 salt	compound
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp

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

Option 3

They got too much sun on deck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sun	amod
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 deck	case
7	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They	much sun		deck			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sun=Theme on deck=Source

Option 4

They ate too much fruit before leaving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fruit	amod
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 leaving	mark
7	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ate	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	They	much fruit					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
2	leave	gerund	They not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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