Test 10 · Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise

«my mate says the jab gives you the actual disease» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, jab, actual disease · What happens: say, give, be · To what, where: actual disease, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 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 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jab	det
6	jab	jab	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	nsubj
7	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 gives	iobj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 disease	det
10	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 disease	amod
11	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 disease	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 disease	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	present	the jab	the actual disease	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient disease=Theme
3	is	present	the actual disease			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 · ← Mova's choice

No, a vaccine is just sugar water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 water	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vaccine	det
4	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 water	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 water	advmod
7	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	compound
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a vaccine	sugar water					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A vaccine uses a harmless copy or piece of the germ, not the disease

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 vaccine	det
2	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	nsubj
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 copy	det
5	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 copy	amod
6	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 piece	cc
8	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 copy	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 germ	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 germ	det
11	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 copy	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 disease	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 disease	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 disease	det
15	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	a vaccine	a harmless copy of the germ or piece				the disease obl	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copy=Patient
2	copy			the germ					nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Yes, but only for one week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 week	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 week	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 week	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 week	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 week	nummod
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, a vaccine is the full disease in a small dose, so you get ill a bit

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 disease	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vaccine	det
4	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disease	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 disease	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 disease	det
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 disease	amod
8	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 dose	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dose	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dose	amod
12	dose	dose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disease	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 get	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 get	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 get	nsubj
16	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 disease	conj
17	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 get	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bit	det
19	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a vaccine	the full disease		a small dose			tree rules
2	get	present	you	a bit				ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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