Test 1 · Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise

«it's freezing and my hair's wet, Mum says I'll catch a cold» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, Mum · What happens: freeze, say, catch, be · To what, where: cold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 72 «Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 freezing	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 freezing	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 freezing	aux
4	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wet	cc
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hair	nmod:poss
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wet	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 hair	case
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 freezing	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
11	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 freezing	conj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 catch	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 catch	aux
15	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 says	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cold	det
17	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 catch	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 catch	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 catch	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 freezing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	freeze in a quote	present · progressive	it			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Mum			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	catch in a quote	future	Mum	a cold		tree rules
4	is	present			right 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 · ✓ the right answer

You only catch a cold from a virus, often passed on by someone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 catch	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 catch	advmod
3	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cold	det
5	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 virus	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 virus	det
8	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 passed	punct
10	often	often	ADV	_	11 passed	advmod
11	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 catch	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	11 passed	compound:prt
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 someone	case
14	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 passed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	You	a cold		a virus			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cold=Theme from virus=Source
2	pass on	participle	You not said here					by someone; often property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, colds only come from eating sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 colds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 eating	mark
7	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 come	advcl
8	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	colds						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	gerund	colds not said here	sweets					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient

Option 3

Yes, cold wet hair turns into a real cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 turns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turns	nsubj
6	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 cold	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cold	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cold	amod
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	cold wet hair			a real cold			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cold=Trajectory

Option 4

Yes, but only if it is below zero

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 zero	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 zero	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 zero	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 zero	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 zero	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 zero	cop
8	below	below	ADV	_	9 zero	advmod
9	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	zero				below property	tree rules

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