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title: Liam swears fish oil made him top in spelling. Best reply? — Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil · tree and pragmatics
description: Liam swears fish oil made him top in spelling. Best reply? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil» 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil

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Liam swears fish oil made him top in spelling. Best reply?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Liam, fish oil · **What happens:** swear, make · **To what, where:** Liam, spelling

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Mum's vitamin and cod-liver oil» 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/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Liam swears fish oil made him top in spelling.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t5:1
# text = Liam swears fish oil made him top in spelling.
1	Liam	Liam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swears	swear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | present | Liam |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | fish oil | Liam |  | spelling |  | top *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product |

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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:* Best reply?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t5:2
# text = Best reply?
1	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It only works for spelling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t5:o1:1
# text = It only works for spelling
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | It |  |  |  |  | for spelling | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for spelling=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fish oil is proven to make every kid top of the whole class

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t5:o2:1
# text = Fish oil is proven to make every kid top of the whole class
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	proven	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | present · passive |  | Fish oil |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | every kid top of the whole class |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset top=Product |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Studies don't show fish oil makes healthy kids cleverer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t5:o3:1
# text = Studies don't show fish oil makes healthy kids cleverer
1	Studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	cleverer	clever	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **show** | present · do-support | Studies |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | present | fish oil | healthy kids |  |  |  | clever *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material kid=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Spelling comes from carrots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil:t5:o4:1
# text = Spelling comes from carrots
1	Spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Spelling |  |  | carrots |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from carrot=Initial\_Location |

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