Test 11 · ★★ · Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad

Why must you finish a course of antibiotics as the doctor says?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, doctor · What happens: finish, say · To what, where: course · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finish	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 finish	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 finish	nsubj
4	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 course	det
6	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finish	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 antibiotics	case
8	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 course	nmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 says	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doctor	det
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 finish	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 finish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	must	you	a course of antibiotics					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector course=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	the doctor						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

Unfinished pills explode in the box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pills	amod
2	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 explode	nsubj
3	explode	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 box	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 box	det
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 explode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	present	Unfinished pills			the box			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in box=Location

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

Stopping early can leave tougher bacteria that may grow back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 leave	nsubj
2	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Stopping	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	aux
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	tougher	tough	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 bacteria	amod
6	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leave	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 grow	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 grow	aux
9	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bacteria	acl:relcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	gerund			early property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	leave	can		tougher bacteria		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacterium=Theme
3	grow back	may	tougher bacteria			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Your body needs the rest as food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 body	nmod:poss
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rest	det
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Your body	the rest				as food	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme

Option 4

It makes the medicine taste much better next time you are ill

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 medicine	det
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 better	advmod
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 taste	xcomp
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ill	obl:unmarked
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 ill	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ill	cop
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the medicine			tree rules
2	taste	present	the medicine not said here			good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present	you		time	ill property	tree rules

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