Test 3 · The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccup…

«green snot = I need antibiotics, mum» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: need, be · To what, where: antibiotics · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 364 «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» 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 snot	punct
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snot	amod
3	snot	snot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 =	nsubj
4	=	=	SYM	_	6 need	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	parataxis
7	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mum	punct
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 antibiotics	conj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need in a quote	present	I	antibiotics and mum					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot antibiotic=Theme
2	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

Yes, green snot always means bacteria

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snot	amod
4	snot	snot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 means	advmod
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	green snot	bacteria				always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacteria=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Not always; the green comes from white blood cells fighting any germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 always	advmod
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 comes	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 always	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 green	det
5	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 cells	case
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cells	amod
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cells	compound
10	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 comes	obl
11	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 cells	acl
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 germs	det
13	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fighting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the green			white blood cells		always property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cell=Initial_Location
2	fight	gerund	white blood cells not said here	any germs					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, green snot means you are allergic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snot	amod
4	snot	snot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 allergic	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 allergic	cop
8	allergic	allergic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	green snot						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you					allergic property	tree rules

Option 4

No, green snot means you ate spinach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 green	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snot	amod
4	snot	snot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 ate	nsubj
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 means	ccomp
8	spinach	spinach	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	green snot						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	past	you	spinach					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spinach=Patient

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