Test 2 · ★ · Wild birds, bats and germs from animals

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A healthy-looking animal can still carry germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 animal	det
2	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looking	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 healthy	punct
4	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carry	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 carry	aux
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 carry	advmod
8	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	carry	can	a looking animal	germs			still		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 2

Only sick animals carry germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 sick	advmod
2	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	nsubj
4	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	sick animals	germs					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 3

Washing hands with water alone kills all germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 kills	nsubj
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Washing	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Washing	obl
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Washing	advmod
6	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 germs	det
8	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kills	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	gerund		hands				with water; alone property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with water=Instrument
2	kill	present		all germs					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 4

Germs cannot pass from animals to people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pass	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pass	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 pass	advmod
4	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 animals	case
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pass	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pass	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pass	can	Germs		people			from animals	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from animal=Initial_Location to people=Destination

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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