Test 8 · Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise

«it's cloudy, don't need sunscreen» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, not need · To what, where: sunscreen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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 cloudy	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cloudy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cloudy	cop
4	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 need	punct
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 need	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 need	advmod
8	need	need	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 cloudy	parataxis
9	sunscreen	sunscreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 need	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 cloudy	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cloudy	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cloudy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	it		cloudy property	tree rules
2	not need in a quote	infinitive · do-support		sunscreen		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sunscreen=Theme
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

Clouds block every single ultraviolet ray completely, so you are safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 block	nsubj
2	block	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ray	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ray	amod
5	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ray	compound
6	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 block	obj
7	completely	completely	ADV	_	2 block	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 safe	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 safe	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 safe	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 safe	cop
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 block	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	present	Clouds	every single ultraviolet ray				completely property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ray=Theme
2	is	present	you					safe property	tree rules

Option 2

Sunburn only happens when you feel hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happens	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happens	advmod
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 feel	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 feel	nsubj
6	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happens	advcl
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Sunburn						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	present	you					hot property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Ultraviolet only reaches the beach at noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ultraviolet	ultraviolet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reaches	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 reaches	advmod
3	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beach	det
5	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reaches	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 noon	case
7	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reaches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	present	Ultraviolet	the beach			noon		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent beach=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Most ultraviolet rays pass through thin clouds, so you can still burn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 rays	amod
2	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rays	amod
3	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pass	nsubj
4	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 clouds	case
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clouds	amod
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pass	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 burn	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 burn	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 burn	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 burn	aux
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 burn	advmod
13	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pass	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present	Most ultraviolet rays			thin clouds			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through cloud=Location
2	burn	can	you				still		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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