Test 6 · Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and was…

«tortoise looks fine, why wash hands, it's clean» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: tortoise · What happens: look, wash, be · To what, where: hands, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 329 «Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands» 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 looks	punct
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looks	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wash	punct
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 wash	advmod
7	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 looks	conj
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wash	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 clean	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 clean	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 clean	cop
12	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wash	parataxis
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 clean	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	7 wash	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	tortoise		fine property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	wash in a quote	infinitive	tortoise not said here	hands		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	tortoise		clean property	tree rules
4	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Healthy reptiles can carry salmonella germs that make people ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reptiles	amod
2	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 carry	aux
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	salmonella	salmonella	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 germs	compound
6	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 make	nsubj
8	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 germs	acl:relcl
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	obj
10	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	can	Healthy reptiles	salmonella germs					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	make	present	salmonella germs	people				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product

Option 2

Only dirty tortoises carry germs, so a clean one is safe to hold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 tortoises	advmod
2	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tortoises	amod
3	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	nsubj
4	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 safe	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	12 safe	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 safe	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 safe	cop
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 carry	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hold	mark
14	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 safe	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	carry	present	dirty tortoises	germs		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	is	present	a clean one		safe property	tree rules
3	hold	to-infinitive	a clean one not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Tortoises are too clean to carry germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clean	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clean	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 clean	advmod
4	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 carry	mark
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clean	xcomp
7	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tortoises					clean property	tree rules
2	carry	to-infinitive	Tortoises not said here	germs					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 4

It is just to keep the tortoise clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 keep	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tortoise	det
7	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					clean, keep property	tree rules

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