Test 4 · Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise

«why am I shivering?? my head's boiling» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, shivering · What happens: shiver, be · To what, where: boiling · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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	_	5 shivering	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 shivering	advmod
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shivering	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 shivering	nsubj
5	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 right	csubj
6	??	??	PUNCT	_	5 shivering	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boiling	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 head	case
10	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shivering	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 shivering	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 shivering	obj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shiver in a quote	present · progressive	I	my head's boiling					tree rules
2	is	present	shivering					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

Shivering means the fever has already gone and you are getting better now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shivering	shivering	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fever	det
4	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 gone	advmod
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 means	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 getting	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 getting	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 getting	aux
11	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 means	conj
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 getting	xcomp
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 getting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Shivering			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	present · perfect	the fever			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	present · progressive	you	now	good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The brain turned the thermostat up, and shivering makes heat to reach it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brain	det
2	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thermostat	det
5	thermostat	thermostat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	3 turned	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 makes	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 makes	cc
9	shivering	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 makes	nsubj
10	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 makes	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 reach	mark
13	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 makes	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	turn up	past	the brain	the thermostat	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thermostat=Theme
2	shiver	gerund			vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	present		heat	tree rules
4	reach	to-infinitive	heat not said here	heat	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Shivering means the germs are winning for sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shivering	shivering	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 germs	det
4	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 winning	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 winning	aux
6	winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 means	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 sure	case
8	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 winning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Shivering						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	win	present · progressive	the germs					for sure	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for sure=Beneficiary

Option 4

Your body is too cold and needs a cold bath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 body	nmod:poss
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cold	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 needs	cc
7	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bath	det
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bath	amod
10	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your body					cold property	tree rules
2	need	present	Your body not said here	a cold bath					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bath=Theme

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