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title: Popeye eats spinach and gets huge muscles. What's the real story? — What vitamins do · tree and pragmatics
description: Popeye eats spinach and gets huge muscles. What's the real story? Test 2 of lesson 21 «What vitamins do» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 2 · What vitamins do

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Popeye eats spinach and gets huge muscles. What's the real story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Popeye, real story · **What happens:** eat, get, be · **To what, where:** spinach, huge muscles

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This is test 2 of lesson 21 «What vitamins do» of the medicine 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Popeye eats spinach and gets huge muscles.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t2:1
# text = Popeye eats spinach and gets huge muscles.
1	Popeye	Popeye	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	spinach	spinach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Popeye | spinach |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spinach=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | present | Popeye *not said here* | huge muscles |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer muscle=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's the real story?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t2:2
# text = What's the real story?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the real story |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Only tinned spinach works

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t2:o1:1
# text = Only tinned spinach works
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	tinned	tin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	spinach	spinach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **work** | present | tinned spinach |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Spinach really builds muscles instantly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t2:o2:1
# text = Spinach really builds muscles instantly
1	Spinach	spinach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | present | Spinach | muscles |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset muscle=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Spinach has no goodness at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t2:o3:1
# text = Spinach has no goodness at all
1	Spinach	spinach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Spinach | no goodness |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodness=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Spinach is good food but its iron is poorly absorbed and gives no super-strength

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:21-what-vitamins-do:t2:o4:1
# text = Spinach is good food but its iron is poorly absorbed and gives no super-strength
1	Spinach	spinach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	poorly	poorly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	absorbed	absorb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
14	super	super	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Spinach | good food but Spinach's iron |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **absorb** | present · passive |  | good food but Spinach's iron |  |  |  | poorly *property* | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | present |  | no super strength |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |

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**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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