Test 6 · Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath

«my little brother farts like 15 times a day, is he ill» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little brother, brother · What happens: fart, be

This is test 6 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 farts	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brother	nmod:poss
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 farts	nsubj
5	farts	fart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 times	case
7	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 farts	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 times	nmod:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ill	cop
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ill	nsubj
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 farts	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ill	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 farts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	fart in a quote	present	my little brother	time		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	brother		ill property	tree rules
3	is	present			right property	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

Yes, more than once a day means illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 more	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 means	mark
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 means	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 more	advcl
9	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a day	illness				once property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

About 10 to 20 times a day is normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 10	advmod
2	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 20	case
4	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 10	nmod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 normal	obl:unmarked
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 times	nmod:unmarked
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 normal	cop
9	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

No, children never fart that much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 fart	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fart	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 fart	advmod
5	fart	fart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	5 fart	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fart	present	children						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, only grown-ups fart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 fart	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 grown	advmod
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ups	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 grown	punct
6	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fart	nsubj
7	fart	fart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fart	present	grown ups						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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