Test 11 · ★ · The reptile house: snakes

How can something poisonous like venom help save lives?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: help, save · To what, where: lives

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 87 «The reptile house: snakes» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 poisonous	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 poisonous	aux
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 poisonous	nsubj
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 venom	case
6	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 help	obl
7	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poisonous	parataxis
8	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 help	xcomp
9	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 save	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 poisonous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present						like venom	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	save	infinitive		lives					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

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

It cannot help anybody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 help	advmod
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	can	It		anybody				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Beneficiary

Option 2

Venom cures colds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cures	nsubj
2	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cures	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	present	Venom	colds					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cold=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Antivenom made from it treats bites, and it led to medicines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Antivenom	antivenom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 treats	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Antivenom	acl
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obl
5	treats	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 treats	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 led	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 led	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 led	nsubj
10	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 treats	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 medicines	case
12	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 led	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	participle		Antivenom not said here	Antivenom		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from it=Material
2	treat	present	Antivenom	bites			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bite=Recipient
3	lead	past	Antivenom			to medicines	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to medicine=Patient

Option 4

Drinking a little venom each day makes you stronger and braver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 makes	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 venom	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 venom	amod
4	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drinking	obj
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drinking	obl:unmarked
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 makes	obj
9	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 makes	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 braver	cc
11	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 stronger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		a little venom			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient
2	make	present	Drinking	you				strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

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