Test 5 · The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccup…

Why do people sneeze into their elbow and not their hand?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: sneeze · To what, where: elbow

This is test 5 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sneeze	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sneeze	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sneeze	nsubj
4	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 elbow	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 elbow	nmod:poss
7	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sneeze	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hand	cc
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 hand	advmod
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 elbow	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sneeze	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze	present · do-support	people			people's elbow and people's hand			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

Sneezing into hands hurts the fingers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sneezing	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hurts	csubj
2	into	into	ADP	_	3 hands	case
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sneezing	obl
4	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fingers	det
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze	gerund				hands			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	present	Sneezing	the fingers					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hands touch door handles and people, elbows do not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 touch	nsubj
2	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handles	compound
4	handles	handle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 touch	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 people	cc
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 handles	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
8	elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 touch	advcl
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	present	Hands	door handles and people					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme handle=Co-Theme
2	not do	present	elbows						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Elbows can catch more air and hold the whole sneeze in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 air	amod
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hold	cc
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 catch	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sneeze	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sneeze	amod
10	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	7 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	can	Elbows	more air					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
2	hold	infinitive	Elbows not said here	the whole sneeze					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sneeze=Theme

Option 4

It makes the sneeze quieter

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sneeze	det
4	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	quieter	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the sneeze				quiet property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sneeze=Product

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