Test 8 · ★ · Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or so…

Which is true about shared sports gear?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be, share

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 328 «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear» 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	about	about	ADP	_	7 gear	case
5	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 gear	amod
6	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gear	compound
7	gear	gear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about shared sports gear; true property	tree rules
2	share	participle							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

Only shoes can spread anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 shoes	advmod
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spread	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux
4	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 spread	obj

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

Option 2

Cleaning gear makes it weaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 makes	csubj
2	gear	gear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cleaning	obj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	gerund		gear					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gear=Patient
2	make	present	Cleaning	gear				weak property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 3

Sports gear cannot carry germs, because the sweat dries off quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	nsubj
2	gear	gear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 carry	advmod
5	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dries	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 dries	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sweat	det
10	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dries	nsubj
11	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 dries	compound:prt
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	11 dries	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not carry	can	Sports	germs					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	dry off	present	the sweat					quickly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Shared helmets and gloves can spread germs and head lice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 helmets	amod
2	helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spread	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 gloves	cc
4	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 helmets	conj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 spread	aux
6	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spread	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lice	cc
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lice	compound
10	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 germs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	participle							tree rules
2	spread	can	Shared helmets and gloves	germs and head lice					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location germ=Theme

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