Test 5 · Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise

«gonna pick my scab, it's well itchy» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, scab, best answer · What happens: pick, be · To what, where: scab

This is test 5 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 pick	punct
2	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	3 pick	dep
3	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 scab	nmod:poss
5	scab	scab	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pick	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 itchy	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 itchy	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 itchy	cop
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 itchy	advmod
10	itchy	itchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pick	conj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 pick	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 pick	obj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 What	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 answer	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 answer	amod
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 What	nsubj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pick in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my scab		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scab=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	scab		itchy, well property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the best answer			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

Pick it, the wound heals much faster with the scab off and air on it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heals	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wound	det
5	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heals	nsubj
6	heals	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	parataxis
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 faster	advmod
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 heals	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 scab	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 scab	det
11	scab	scab	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heals	obl
12	off	off	ADP	_	6 heals	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 air	cc
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heals	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 air	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here	it					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	heal off	present	the wound					with the scab; fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with scab=Instrument

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

Leave it: picking can let germs in and leave a scar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
4	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 let	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	parataxis
7	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 let	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	6 let	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 leave	cc
10	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 scar	det
12	scar	scar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	pick	gerund			vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let in	can		germs	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
4	leave	infinitive		a scar	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scar=Theme

Option 3

Pick it, scabs are only dried dirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scabs	compound
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pick	punct
4	scabs	scab	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dried	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dried	aux:pass
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 dried	advmod
7	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	infinitive		it					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	dry	present · passive		Pick scabs					tree rules

Option 4

Pick it and put soil on to dry it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 soil	cc
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 soil	amod
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pick	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 dry	case
7	to	to	PART	_	8 dry	mark
8	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here	it	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	put	participle			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	dry	to-infinitive	you not said here	soil	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result

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