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Test 5 · Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath

In a cartoon a skunk's smell is shown as a green cloud, and Tom's sweaty socks make flowers wilt and flies drop dead. What is the truth about sweaty socks?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom, flowers, skunk, truth · What happens: show, be, drop, smell · To what, where: smell

This is test 5 of lesson 356 «Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath» 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: In a cartoon a skunk's smell is shown as a green cloud, and Tom's sweaty socks make flowers wilt and flies drop dead.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shown	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 skunk	det
5	skunk	skunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smell	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 skunk	case
7	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shown	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 shown	aux:pass
9	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 cloud	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cloud	det
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cloud	amod
13	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shown	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 make	cc
16	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 make	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 make	cop
18	sweaty	sweaty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 socks	amod
19	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 make	nsubj
20	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 shown	parataxis
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 drop	nsubj
22	wilt	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 flowers	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flies	cc
24	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 flowers	conj
25	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 make	parataxis
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 drop	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shown	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · passive		a skunk's smell				as a green cloud; in a cartoon	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in cartoon=Topic
2	is	present	Tom					make property	tree rules
3	drop	present	flowers and flies					dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	smell		a skunk						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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: What is the truth about sweaty socks?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 socks	case
6	sweaty	sweaty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 socks	amod
7	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 truth	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the truth about sweaty socks						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sweaty socks can kill small animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweaty	sweaty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 socks	amod
2	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kill	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	aux
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	can	Sweaty socks	small animals					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The smell is from bacteria and is unpleasant, but it does not kill flowers or flies

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smell	det
2	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bacteria	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bacteria	cop
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 bacteria	case
5	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 unpleasant	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 unpleasant	cop
8	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bacteria	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kill	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 kill	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kill	nsubj
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 kill	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 kill	advmod
14	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bacteria	conj
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 kill	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 flies	cc
17	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flowers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the smell			bacteria			tree rules
2	is	present	the smell not said here					unpleasant property	tree rules
3	not kill	present · do-support	smell	flowers or flies					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme

Option 3

Sock smell really is green and poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smell	compound
2	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 green	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 green	cop
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 smell	acl:relcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 poisonous	cc
7	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 green	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sock smell not said here					green property	tree rules
2	be		Sock smell not said here						tree rules

Option 4

The smell comes from the socks themselves, not from bacteria

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smell	det
2	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 socks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 socks	det
6	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 comes	obl
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 socks	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bacteria	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 bacteria	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 bacteria	case
11	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the smell			the socks socks		from bacteria	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from sock=Initial_Location from bacterium=Destination

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