Test 9 · The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines
Granny had chickenpox as a girl and now has shingles. How can that be?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Granny, that · What happens: have, be · To what, where: chickenpox, shingles
This is test 9 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
Sentence 1: Granny had chickenpox as a girl and now has shingles.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | chickenpox | chickenpox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 girl | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 has | cc |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 has | advmod |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 10 | shingles | shingle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 has | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Granny | chickenpox | as a girl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chickenpox=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | present | Granny not said here | shingles | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shingle=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: How can that be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 be | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 be | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can | can | that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The chickenpox virus hid in her nerves for decades and woke up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 virus | det |
| 2 | chickenpox | chickenpox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 virus | compound |
| 3 | virus | virus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hid | nsubj |
| 4 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 nerves | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 nerves | nmod:poss |
| 7 | nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hid | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 decades | case |
| 9 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hid | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 woke | cc |
| 11 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hid | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 woke | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | the chickenpox virus | virus's nerves | decade | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nerve=Location | |||
| 2 | wake up | past | the chickenpox virus not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
She caught it again from a baby in her family
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 caught | obj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 caught | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 baby | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 baby | det |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 family | nmod:poss |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | She | it | a baby | again | in her family | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from baby=Source |
Option 3
Shingles comes from eating bad food that has gone off in the fridge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shingles | shingle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 4 eating | mark |
| 4 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 comes | advcl |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 food | amod |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eating | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 food | acl:relcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 gone | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fridge | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fridge | det |
| 13 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Shingles | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | Shingles not said here | bad food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go off | present · perfect | bad food | the fridge | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fridge=Location |
Option 4
Shingles is a kind of sunburn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shingles | shingle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sunburn | case |
| 6 | sunburn | sunburn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Shingles | a kind | of sunburn | tree rules |
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