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title: Emily's big sister says carbs are bad, so Emily skips bread and past… — Food myths and fads · tree and pragmatics
description: Emily's big sister says carbs are bad, so Emily skips bread and pasta and can't keep up at hockey. Why? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 55 «Food myths and fads» 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 · ★★★ · Food myths and fads

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Emily's big sister says carbs are bad, so Emily skips bread and pasta and can't keep up at hockey. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** big sister, carbs · **What happens:** say, be, not keep up · **To what, where:** hockey · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 55 «Food myths and fads» 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/55-food-myths-and-fads/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Emily's big sister says carbs are bad, so Emily skips bread and pasta and can't keep up at hockey.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:55-food-myths-and-fads:t2:1
# text = Emily's big sister says carbs are bad, so Emily skips bread and pasta and can't keep up at hockey.
1	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	carbs	carb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	skips	skip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	compound	_	_
13	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	pasta	pasta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	hockey	hockey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Emily's big sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | carbs |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **keep up** | can | Emily's big sister *not said here* |  |  | hockey |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:55-food-myths-and-fads:t2:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Carbs make legs heavy and slow in the second half

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:55-food-myths-and-fads:t2:o1:1
# text = Carbs make legs heavy and slow in the second half
1	Carbs	carb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Carbs | legs |  | the second half |  | heavy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leg=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hockey sticks are too heavy without pasta

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:55-food-myths-and-fads:t2:o2:1
# text = Hockey sticks are too heavy without pasta
1	Hockey	hockey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	pasta	pasta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Hockey sticks |  |  |  |  | without pasta; heavy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Starchy carbs are the main fuel for running

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:55-food-myths-and-fads:t2:o3:1
# text = Starchy carbs are the main fuel for running
1	Starchy	starchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	carbs	carb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Starchy carbs | the main fuel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She ate too many carbs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:55-food-myths-and-fads:t2:o4:1
# text = She ate too many carbs
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	carbs	carb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | She | many carbs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carb=Patient |

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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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