Test 2 · ★★ · Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad

just give me antibiotics for this cold doc, I've got a match saturday

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, get · To what, where: antibiotics, me, match saturday

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	just	just	ADV	_	2 give	advmod
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 give	iobj
4	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 doc	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 doc	det
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 doc	amod
8	doc	doc	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 got	nsubj
11	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 got	aux
12	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 give	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 saturday	det
14	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saturday	compound
15	saturday	saturday	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	antibiotics	me			for this cold doc	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient antibiotic=Theme for doc=Asset
2	get	present · perfect	I	a match saturday					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saturday=Stimulus

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

Only if you take double

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 take	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 take	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	you	double					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent double=Theme

Option 2

Yes, but only with orange juice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 juice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 juice	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 juice	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 juice	case
6	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 juice	amod
7	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Fine, they cure any cold in a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cure	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cure	nsubj
4	cure	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Fine	parataxis
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 cold	det
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cure	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cure	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	present	they	any cold			day		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cold=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They won't help: a cold is a virus, and antibiotics work on bacteria

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
2	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 help	advmod
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 virus	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cold	det
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 virus	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 virus	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 virus	det
10	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 work	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 work	cc
13	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 work	nsubj
14	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 bacteria	case
16	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not help	future	They			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a cold	a virus		tree rules
3	work	present	antibiotics		on bacteria	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on bacteria=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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