--- title: Granny is told to eat more yoghurt and cheese. What are these foods… — The skeleton and muscles · tree and pragmatics description: Granny is told to eat more yoghurt and cheese. What are these foods mostly helping? Test 8 of lesson 31 «The skeleton and muscles» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/31-skeleton-and-muscles/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [The skeleton and muscles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/31-skeleton-and-muscles/) / t8 # Test 8 · The skeleton and muscles Granny is told to eat more yoghurt and cheese. What are these foods mostly helping? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Granny, foods · **What happens:** tell, eat, be, help · **To what, where:** Granny, more yoghurt · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 of lesson 31 «The skeleton and muscles» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/31-skeleton-and-muscles/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Granny is told to eat more yoghurt and cheese. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:31-skeleton-and-muscles:t8:1 # text = Granny is told to eat more yoghurt and cheese. 1 Granny granny NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 yoghurt yoghurt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | Granny | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Granny *not said here* | more yoghurt and cheese | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yoghurt=Patient | 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 are these foods mostly helping? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:31-skeleton-and-muscles:t8:2 # text = What are these foods mostly helping? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 obl _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 foods food NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 helping help VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | gerund | this foods | | | | | mostly *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Her hair, by making it curly ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:31-skeleton-and-muscles:t8:o1:1 # text = Her hair, by making it curly 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 by by SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 curly curly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | gerund | | hair | | | | curly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Her bones, by giving them calcium ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:31-skeleton-and-muscles:t8:o2:1 # text = Her bones, by giving them calcium 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 by by SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 calcium calcium NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | gerund | Her bones *not said here* | | bones *= bone* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Her eyes, by giving them light ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:31-skeleton-and-muscles:t8:o3:1 # text = Her eyes, by giving them light 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 by by SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | gerund | Her eyes | light | them *= they* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient light=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Her lungs, by giving them air ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:31-skeleton-and-muscles:t8:o4:1 # text = Her lungs, by giving them air 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 by by SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | gerund | Her lungs *not said here* | | lungs *= lung* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | **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. 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