Test 1 · ★★ · Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad

are germs all bad?? my teacher said u need some

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, germs · What happens: be, say, need · To what, where: germs, some · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 63 «Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad» 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	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 germs	cop
2	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 need	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 bad	advmod
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 germs	amod
5	??	??	SCONJ	_	8 said	mark
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 teacher	nmod:poss
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	advcl
9	u	u	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	xcomp
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		germs		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	my teacher		u property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	need	present	germs	some		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot some=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

Yes, every microbe makes you ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 microbe	det
4	microbe	microbe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 makes	obj
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	every microbe	you				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

Option 2

No, germs are all good and not a single one of them can ever harm you

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 good	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 good	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 harm	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 one	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 harm	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 one	nmod
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 harm	aux
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 harm	advmod
16	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 harm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	germs					all, good property	tree rules
2	harm	can	a single one of germs	you			ever		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

Option 3

Yes, but only the ones in water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 ones	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 ones	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ones	det
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ones	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, most microbes are harmless or helpful, like those in your gut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 harmless	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 microbes	amod
4	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 harmless	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 harmless	cop
6	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 helpful	cc
8	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 harmless	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 those	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 those	case
11	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 harmless	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 gut	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 gut	nmod:poss
14	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 those	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	most microbes					like those; harmless property	tree rules
2	be		most microbes not said here						tree rules

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