Test 2 · The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines

«ugh flu, 39 degrees, my body's broken» What is the fever really doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fever · What happens: break, be · To what, where: flu · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 258 «The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines» 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	_	3 flu	punct
2	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	3 flu	discourse
3	flu	flu	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broken	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 degrees	punct
5	39	39	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 degrees	nummod
6	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flu	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 flu	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 body	nmod:poss
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broken	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 broken	aux:pass
11	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 broken	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 doing	obj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 doing	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fever	det
16	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 doing	nsubj
17	really	really	ADV	_	18 doing	advmod
18	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 broken	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 broken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break in a quote	present · passive		flu					tree rules
2	is	present	the fever					do 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Helping fight the virus by making it harder to multiply

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Helping	xcomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 virus	det
4	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fight	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 making	mark
6	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fight	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 making	obj
8	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 making	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 multiply	mark
10	multiply	multiply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 harder	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help	gerund				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fight	infinitive		the virus		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virus=Co-Agent
3	make	gerund		virus	hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	multiply	to-infinitive	virus not said here			vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Showing the body has given up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 given	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 body	det
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Showing	obj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 given	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	gerund		the body					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent body=Recipient
2	give up	present · perfect	Showing						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Cooking the virus slowly in the blood until it is all dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooking	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 dead	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 virus	det
3	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cooking	obj
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Cooking	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 blood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blood	det
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cooking	obl
8	until	until	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Cooking	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	cop
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 dead	advmod
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	gerund		the virus			until blood	in the blood; slowly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent virus=Patient in blood=Instrument
2	is	present	Cooking					all, dead property	tree rules

Option 4

Nothing, fevers have no reason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 have	obj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	fevers	fever	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 reason	det
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	fevers	Nothing					tree rules

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