Test 8 · The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad

«are we even human then if half of us is bacteria» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: we, half · What happens: be · To what, where: bacteria, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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	_	5 human	punct
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 human	cop
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 human	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 human	advmod
5	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 answer	csubj
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 bacteria	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 bacteria	mark
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 bacteria	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 us	case
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 half	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bacteria	cop
12	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 human	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 human	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 answer	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 answer	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 answer	amod
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	we			human property	tree rules
2	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	half of us	bacteria	then		tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present		the best answer			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

No, bacteria cannot live inside people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 live	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 live	advmod
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	can	bacteria					inside people	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside people=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

We are human, with a crowd of mostly helpful bacteria living with us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 human	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 human	cop
3	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crowd	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 crowd	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crowd	det
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 human	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 bacteria	case
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	10 helpful	advmod
10	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bacteria	amod
11	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crowd	nmod
12	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 bacteria	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 us	case
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	We					human property	tree rules
2	live	gerund	helpful bacteria not said here					with us	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location

Option 3

Yes, but the bacteria in our guts control our brains and choose what we do

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 control	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 control	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bacteria	det
5	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 control	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 guts	case
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 guts	nmod:poss
8	guts	gut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bacteria	nmod
9	control	control	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brains	nmod:poss
11	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 control	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 choose	cc
13	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 control	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 do	obj
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
16	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 choose	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	control	present	the bacteria in our guts	our brains	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Theme
2	choose	infinitive	the bacteria in our guts not said here		tree rules
3	do	present	we		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 4

No, we are really bacteria dressed up in a human costume

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 bacteria	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bacteria	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bacteria	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 bacteria	advmod
6	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bacteria	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 dressed	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 costume	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 costume	det
11	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 costume	amod
12	costume	costume	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	we	bacteria					tree rules
2	dress up	participle		bacteria not said here		a human costume			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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