Test 5 · ★★ · Home myths, first aid and weather warnings

Why is a dirty splinter more of a problem than a clean one?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: dirty splinter

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 120 «Home myths, first aid and weather warnings» of the everyday 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 splinter	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 splinter	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 splinter	det
4	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 splinter	amod
5	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 splinter	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 problem	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 problem	det
9	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 more	obl
10	than	than	ADP	_	13 one	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 problem	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 splinter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a dirty splinter					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

Dirty splinters are always much bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 splinters	amod
2	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bigger	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bigger	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 bigger	advmod
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Dirty splinters					big property	tree rules

Option 2

Dirt makes the splinter go in deeper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 splinter	det
4	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Dirt	the splinter				deep property	tree rules
2	go in	infinitive	the splinter not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Germs on it can cause an infection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cause	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Germs	nmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cause	aux
5	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 infection	det
7	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	can	Germs on it	a infection					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition infection=Patient

Option 4

Clean splinters come out by themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 splinters	amod
2	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 themselves	case
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	Clean splinters					by splinters = splinter; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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