Test 4 · ★ · The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes

«got a cold, gimme those antibiotics from last year» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: best answer · What happens: get, be · To what, where: cold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 299 «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» 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 cold	det
4	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gimme	punct
6	gimme	gimme	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	conj
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 antibiotics	det
8	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 year	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 year	amod
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 antibiotics	nmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 got	parataxis
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 What	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 answer	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 answer	amod
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 What	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past		a cold and gimme					tree rules
2	is a	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

Yes, but take double

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 take	cc
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	double					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent double=Theme

Option 2

Yes, if you mix them with orange juice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 mix	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mix	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 mix	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 mix	nsubj
5	mix	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mix	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 juice	case
8	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 juice	amod
9	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mix	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	present	you	them = they				with orange juice	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient with juice=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, antibiotics do not work on cold viruses, and old leftovers must not be taken

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 work	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 work	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 work	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 work	advmod
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 viruses	case
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 viruses	amod
9	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 work	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taken	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 taken	cc
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 leftovers	amod
13	leftovers	leftover	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 taken	nsubj:pass
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 taken	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 taken	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 taken	aux:pass
17	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 work	conj

#	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
2	not take	must · passive		old leftovers					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Yes, any antibiotic cures a cold, however old it is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 cures	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 antibiotic	det
4	antibiotic	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cures	nsubj
5	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cold	det
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cures	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
9	however	however	ADV	_	10 old	advmod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cures	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 old	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	present	any antibiotic	a cold					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cold=Source
2	is	present	antibiotic					however, old property	tree rules

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