Test 5 · ★ · Lungs, air and keeping fit
After a day in a smoky city, Ana coughs up mucus with dark specks in it. What were the specks?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ana · What happens: cough up, be · To what, where: mucus, specks
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 93 «Lungs, air and keeping fit» 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: After a day in a smoky city, Ana coughs up mucus with dark specks in it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coughs | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 6 | smoky | smoky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 city | amod |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 9 | Ana | Ana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 coughs | nsubj |
| 10 | coughs | cough | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 coughs | compound:prt |
| 12 | mucus | mucus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coughs | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 specks | case |
| 14 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 specks | amod |
| 15 | specks | speck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 coughs | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 specks | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 coughs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cough up | present | Ana | mucus | day | with dark specks in mucus | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mucus=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: What were the specks?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 specks | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 specks | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 specks | det |
| 4 | specks | speck | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 specks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the specks | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Old red blood cells that came up from the heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cells | amod |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cells | amod |
| 3 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cells | compound |
| 4 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cells | acl:relcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 heart | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heart | det |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Old red blood cells | the heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from heart=Initial_Location |
Option 2
Oxygen that has turned dark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | aux |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Oxygen | acl:relcl |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 turned | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present · perfect | Oxygen | dark property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Bits of the lungs themselves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 lungs | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lungs | det |
| 4 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bits | nmod |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Bits | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Dust and smoke specks trapped by the airways
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 specks | cc |
| 3 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 specks | compound |
| 4 | specks | speck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dust | conj |
| 5 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 specks | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 airways | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 airways | det |
| 8 | airways | airway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 trapped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trap | participle | smoke specks not said here | by the airways | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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