Test 2 · Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn

«sweat's just your body leaking, it's useless» What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sweat, body · What happens: be, leak · To what, where: body, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 353 «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» 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	_	6 body	punct
2	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 body	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 body	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 body	advmod
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 body	nmod:poss
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	leaking	leak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 body	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 useless	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 useless	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 useless	cop
11	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 body	conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 useless	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 truth	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 truth	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 truth	det
16	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 useless	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 body	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	sweat	your body		tree rules
2	leak in a quote	gerund	your body not said here			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	is in a quote	present	sweat		useless property	tree rules
4	is a	present		the truth		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

Sweat is only there to make you smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 there	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 there	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 there	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sweat		there property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	Sweat not said here	you		tree rules
3	smell	infinitive	you not said here			vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Sweat makes you hotter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Sweat	you				hot property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sweat cools you as it dries off the skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cools	nsubj
2	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 cools	obj
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 dries	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dries	nsubj
6	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cools	advcl
7	off	off	ADP	_	9 skin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 skin	det
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present	Sweat	you					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	dry off	present	Sweat	the skin					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient skin=Result

Option 4

Sweat cleans out all the dirt from the blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cleans	nsubj
2	cleans	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 cleans	compound:prt
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 dirt	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dirt	det
6	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cleans	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 blood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 blood	det
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cleans	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean out	present	Sweat	all dirt		the blood			vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme from blood=Source

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