Test 9 · ★ · Wild birds, bats and germs from animals

Which is the best time to wash your hands at a farm or zoo?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, wash · To what, where: best time, hands, farm

This is test 9 · ★ 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	5 time	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wash	mark
7	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 time	acl
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wash	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 farm	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 farm	det
12	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wash	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 zoo	cc
14	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 farm	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best time					tree rules
2	wash	to-infinitive		your hands		a farm or zoo			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

Washing is never needed at a zoo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 needed	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 needed	advmod
4	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 zoo	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 zoo	det
7	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · passive		Washing		a zoo			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

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

After touching the animals and before eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 touching	mark
2	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 touching	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 eating	cc
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 eating	mark
7	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 touching	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	gerund		the animals					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme animal=Co-Theme
2	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Only when you get home the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	you				day	home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Before touching the animals only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 touching	mark
2	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 touching	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	2 touching	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	gerund		the animals					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme animal=Co-Theme

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