Test 6 · ★★ · Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad

Why was smallpox the first disease to be wiped out from the whole world?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, wipe out · To what, where: smallpox, whole world

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	3 smallpox	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smallpox	cop
3	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 disease	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 disease	amod
6	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smallpox	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 wiped	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 wiped	aux:pass
9	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 disease	acl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 wiped	compound:prt
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 world	amod
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wiped	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 smallpox	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		smallpox and the first disease					tree rules
2	wipe out	to-infinitive · passive				the whole world			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: from world=Trajectory

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 · ✓ the right answer

Vaccines protected so many that the virus had nowhere left to spread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 left	nsubj
2	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Vaccines	acl
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 left	nsubj:pass
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 left	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 virus	det
7	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 left	aux
9	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 left	advmod
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 spread	mark
12	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 left	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	protect	participle	Vaccines not said here		vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	leave	past · perfect · passive	Vaccines	nowhere property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	spread	to-infinitive			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Smallpox germs died of old age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 germs	compound
2	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 died	nsubj
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 age	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 age	amod
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	Smallpox germs				of old age		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of age=Causer

Option 3

The disease moved to animals only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 disease	det
2	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 animals	case
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moved	obl
6	only	only	ADV	_	3 moved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	the disease					to animals result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to animal=Result

Option 4

Doctors found and killed every smallpox germ with soap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 killed	cc
4	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 germ	det
6	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 germ	compound
7	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 killed	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 soap	case
9	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 germ	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Doctors						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	kill	past	Doctors not said here	every smallpox germ				with soap	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent germ=Patient with soap=Instrument

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