Test 9 · The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccup…

«my hands look clean, why wash after the loo, it's a waste of time» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: hands, loo · What happens: look, wash, be · To what, where: waste · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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	_	4 look	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wash	punct
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 wash	advmod
8	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 look	conj
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 loo	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 loo	det
11	loo	loo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wash	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 waste	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 waste	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 waste	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 waste	det
16	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wash	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 time	case
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waste	nmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 right	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 right	cop
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	my hands			clean property	tree rules
2	wash in a quote	infinitive	my hands not said here		after the loo		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	loo	a waste	time		tree rules
4	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

Toilets have no germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toilets	toilet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 germs	det
4	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Toilets	no germs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient

Option 2

Water alone always kills every germ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kills	nsubj
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Water	advmod
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 kills	advmod
4	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 germ	det
6	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kills	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	Water	every germ				always property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 3

Germs only ever live on hands that look dirty or smell bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 live	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 live	advmod
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 hands	case
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 look	nsubj
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hands	acl:relcl
9	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 look	xcomp
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 smell	cc
11	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 live	conj
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 smell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Germs	hands	ever		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Location
2	look	present	hands			dirty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	smell	present	Germs not said here			bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Germs are too small to see, so clean-looking hands can carry them

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 small	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 small	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carry	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	14 carry	advmod
9	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 looking	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 clean	punct
11	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 hands	amod
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 carry	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 carry	aux
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 small	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Germs		small property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	Germs not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	carry	can	looking hands	Germs = germ		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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