Test 16 · ★ · Wild birds, bats and germs from animals

Jack says hand gel is just as good as washing after the petting zoo. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack, hand gel · What happens: say, be, wash · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 29 «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gel	compound
4	gel	gel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 good	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 good	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 good	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 good	advmod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 washing	mark
10	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 good	advcl
11	after	after	ADP	_	14 zoo	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 zoo	det
13	petting	petting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 zoo	compound
14	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 washing	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jack			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	hand gel		good property	tree rules
3	wash	gerund	hand gel not said here	after the petting zoo		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Yes, gel works best on muddy hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 works	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	gel	gel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 works	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hands	amod
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	gel					on muddy hands; well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on hand=Theme

Option 2

Yes, gel kills everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kills	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	gel	gel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kills	nsubj
4	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 kills	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	gel	everything					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, soap and water get rid of farm germs better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 water	cc
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soap	conj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 germs	case
9	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 germs	compound
10	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rid	obl
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	soap and water					good, rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Yes, washing is pointless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 pointless	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pointless	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pointless	cop
5	pointless	pointless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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