Exam question 4 · Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo

Ascertain the principal reason for which hands are to be washed with soap following contact with farm animals.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, wash, follow · To what, where: principal reason, hands, contact

This is exam question 4 of lesson 206 «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 washed	obl
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 washed	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 washed	aux:pass
9	to	to	PART	_	11 washed	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 washed	aux:pass
11	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 soap	case
13	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 washed	obl
14	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 washed	advcl
15	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 following	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 animals	case
17	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 animals	compound
18	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 contact	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
2	wash	present · passive	you not said here	hands	for the principal reason; with soap	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with soap=Instrument
3	follow	gerund	you not said here	contact	with farm animals	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contact=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

Soap prevents the animals from biting one later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevents	nsubj
2	prevents	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prevents	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 biting	mark
6	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 prevents	advcl
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 biting	obj
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 one	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	present	Soap	the animals					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer animal=Theme
2	bite	gerund	Soap not said here	one					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 2

Farm animals dislike the smell of children's unwashed hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 animals	compound
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dislike	nsubj
3	dislike	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smell	det
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dislike	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 hands	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hands	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 children	case
9	unwashed	unwashed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hands	amod
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dislike	present	Farm animals	the smell of children's unwashed hands					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus
2	smell		children's unwashed hands						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

It is required only if the animal was visibly dirty

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	3 required	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 required	aux:pass
3	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	10 dirty	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 dirty	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animal	det
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dirty	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dirty	cop
9	visibly	visibly	ADV	_	10 dirty	advmod
10	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 required	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present · passive		It					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the animal					dirty, visibly property	tree rules

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

Farm animals may carry germs such as E. coli

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 animals	compound
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 carry	aux
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obj
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	9 coli	case
7	as	as	ADP	_	6 such	fixed
8	E.	E.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 coli	compound
9	coli	coli	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 germs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	may	Farm animals	germs				such E. coli	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

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