Test 11 · Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodli…

Why does washing bedding hot help people with dust mite allergy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: wash, help · To what, where: bedding, people

This is test 11 of lesson 370 «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» 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	3 washing	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 washing	aux
3	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 help	nsubj
4	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 washing	obj
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 washing	xcomp
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 help	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 allergy	case
9	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mite	compound
10	mite	mite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 allergy	compound
11	allergy	allergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 people	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present · do-support		bedding				hot property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bedding=Patient
2	help	present			people			with mite allergy	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary with allergy=Theme

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

It makes skin flakes bigger

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	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flakes	compound
4	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

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

Option 2

Hot water makes mites grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Hot water	mites					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	mites not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Mites like the smell of soap and leave the bed to find it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 leave	nsubj
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 smell	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smell	det
4	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mites	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 soap	case
6	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smell	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 soap	cc
8	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bed	det
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 find	mark
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 leave	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	infinitive	Mites like the smell and soap	the bed					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive	Mites like the smell and soap not said here	bed					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hot washing kills mites and removes their droppings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 washing	amod
2	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kills	nsubj
3	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kills	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 removes	cc
6	removes	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kills	conj
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 droppings	nmod:poss
8	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 removes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	Hot washing	mites					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mite=Theme
2	remove	present	Hot washing not said here	mites's droppings					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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