Test 15 · ★ · Teeth, nails, baths and toilets

Why did half the class get sick after a boy skipped washing his hands?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: get, skip, wash · To what, where: hands

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 208 «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» 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	6 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
3	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 class	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 class	det
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	compound
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 skipped	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 skipped	nsubj
11	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	advcl
12	washing	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 skipped	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 washing	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support			sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	skip	past	a boy			tree rules
3	wash	gerund	a boy not said here	boy's hands		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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

It was just the cold, rainy weather that week

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	8 weather	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 weather	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	8 weather	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 weather	det
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weather	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cold	punct
7	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weather	amod
8	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 weather	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the cold rainy weather			week		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Germs from his hands spread on shared things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spread	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 hands	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Germs	nmod
5	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 things	case
7	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	present	Germs from his hands			shared things			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on thing=Location
2	share	participle							tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Soap spreads germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spreads	nsubj
2	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spreads	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	present	Soap	germs					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location germ=Theme

Option 4

Classes always get sick all at once in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Classes	class	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 get	advmod
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 once	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 get	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 winter	case
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Classes				winter	always, once, sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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