Test 2 · The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad

«got a stinking cold, doc better give me antibiotics» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get, doc, give, be · To what, where: stinking, antibiotics, me

This is test 2 of lesson 257 «The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad» of the biology 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stinking	det
4	stinking	stinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 doc	punct
7	doc	doc	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
8	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 doc	advmod
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 doc	xcomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 give	iobj
11	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 give	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	a stinking		cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stinking=Stimulus
2	doc in a quote	infinitive			well property	tree rules
3	give in a quote	infinitive	antibiotics	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient antibiotic=Theme
4	is	present			right property	tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Antibiotics do not work on cold viruses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 work	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 work	advmod
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 viruses	case
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 viruses	amod
7	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	present · do-support	Antibiotics					on cold viruses	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on virus=Theme

Option 2

Antibiotics cure a cold in an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cure	nsubj
2	cure	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cold	det
4	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cure	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hour	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cure	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	present	Antibiotics	a cold			hour		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cold=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Only strong antibiotics work on colds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 strong	advmod
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 antibiotics	amod
3	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nsubj
4	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 colds	case
6	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	strong antibiotics					on colds	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on cold=Theme

Option 4

Antibiotics make you catch more colds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 colds	amod
6	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Antibiotics	you					tree rules
2	catch	infinitive	you not said here	more colds					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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