Test 2 · Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise

«just give me antibiotics for this cold, it'll be gone tomorrow» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, cold · What happens: give, be · To what, where: antibiotics, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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	_	3 give	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 give	advmod
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 cold	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 cold	det
8	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gone	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 gone	cop
13	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tomorrow	amod
14	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obl:unmarked
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 give	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here	antibiotics	me	tomorrow	for this cold	tree rules
2	is in a quote	future	cold				gone property	tree rules
3	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

Yes, but only if you take double the dose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 take	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 take	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 take	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	double	double	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 take	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dose	det
10	dose	dose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 double	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	you						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	double	infinitive		the dose					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dose=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Antibiotics do nothing to cold viruses, and needless use helps bacteria resist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 do	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 viruses	case
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 viruses	amod
6	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nothing	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 helps	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 helps	cc
9	needless	needless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 use	amod
10	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 helps	nsubj
11	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 do	conj
12	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 helps	obj
13	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 helps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	Antibiotics	nothing	to cold viruses	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	help	present	needless use	bacteria		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent bacterium=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	resist	infinitive	bacteria not said here			tree rules

Option 3

No, antibiotics only work on broken bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 antibiotics	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 work	advmod
5	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 bones	case
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bones	amod
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	antibiotics					on broken bones	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on bone=Theme
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Yes, antibiotics kill every germ there is, including the viruses that cause colds

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kill	nsubj
4	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 is	advcl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 germ	det
6	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	obj
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 is	expl
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 viruses	punct
10	including	including	ADP	_	12 viruses	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 viruses	det
12	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 is	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 cause	nsubj
14	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 viruses	acl:relcl
15	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill	present	antibiotics	every germ			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	be	present			there	including the viruses	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cause	present	the viruses	colds			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cold=Patient

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