Test 4 · ★★ · Anger and fears

Why does a quick vaccination sting matter less than the vaccine?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: do, matter · To what, where: quick vaccination sting, less

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 212 «Anger and fears» 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	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 matter	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sting	det
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sting	amod
5	vaccination	vaccination	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sting	compound
6	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
7	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 matter	obj
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 vaccine	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 vaccine	det
11	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 less	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 matter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a quick vaccination sting					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Eventuality
2	matter	present		less					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

The sting is the medicine itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sting	det
2	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 medicine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 medicine	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 medicine	det
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	5 medicine	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the sting	the medicine				sting nmod:unmarked	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The sting lasts a second, and the vaccine protects you from serious illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sting	det
2	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasts	nsubj
3	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 second	det
5	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lasts	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 protects	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 protects	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vaccine	det
9	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 protects	nsubj
10	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lasts	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 protects	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 illness	case
13	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 illness	amod
14	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 protects	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present	the sting				second		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	protect	present	the vaccine		you			from serious illness	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from illness=Theme

Option 3

Stings make you stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stings	sting	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Stings	you				strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

Option 4

Vaccines only matter for adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 matter	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 matter	advmod
3	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Vaccines					for adults	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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