Test 9 · ★★ · Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad

the yoghurt says live cultures on it, is it gone off?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: yoghurt · What happens: say, be · To what, where: live cultures, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 yoghurt	det
2	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cultures	amod
5	cultures	culture	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 says	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cultures	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gone	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gone	nsubj
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 gone	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the yoghurt	live cultures		it			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent culture=Topic
2	is	present	yoghurt					go property	tree rules

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

No, it means it was made yesterday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 means	ccomp
8	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	past · passive		it			yesterday		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

Yes, it means it is alive and will grow out of the pot if you leave it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 alive	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 alive	cop
7	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grow	cc
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 grow	aux
10	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 alive	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 pot	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 pot	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pot	det
14	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grow	obl
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 leave	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 leave	nsubj
17	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grow	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it		alive property	tree rules
3	grow out	future		the pot		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=Theme
4	leave a condition, not said to happen	present	you	pot		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, live cultures are the friendly bacteria that made the yoghurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cultures	amod
4	cultures	culture	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bacteria	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bacteria	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bacteria	det
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bacteria	amod
8	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bacteria	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 yoghurt	det
12	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	live cultures	the friendly bacteria					tree rules
2	make	past	the friendly bacteria	the yoghurt					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yoghurt=Product

Option 4

Yes, it is full of bad germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 full	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 full	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 germs	case
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 germs	amod
8	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					of bad germs; full property	tree rules

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