Test 9 · The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad

Where would you look for some of the toughest bacteria on Earth?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: look

This is test 9 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 look	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 some	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 look	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 bacteria	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bacteria	det
9	toughest	tough	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 bacteria	amod
10	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 some	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 Earth	case
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bacteria	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would	you					for some	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for some=Theme

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

In near-boiling hot springs and in Antarctic ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	6 springs	case
2	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 springs	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 near	punct
4	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 springs	amod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 springs	amod
6	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ice	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 ice	case
9	Antarctic	Antarctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ice	compound
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 springs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Only in clean hospitals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 hospitals	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 hospitals	case
3	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hospitals	amod
4	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nowhere, bacteria cannot live in hard places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 live	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nowhere	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	in	in	ADP	_	9 places	case
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 places	amod
9	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	can	bacteria			hard places		nowhere property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location

Option 4

Only in warm bathrooms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 bathrooms	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 bathrooms	case
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bathrooms	amod
4	bathrooms	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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