Test 16 · ★★ · Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet

Max says pet shop animals never carry germs. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Max, shop animals · What happens: say, not carry · To what, where: germs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 64 «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» 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	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shop	compound
4	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animals	compound
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carry	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 carry	advmod
7	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
8	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carry	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	2 says	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Max						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not carry	present	shop animals	germs					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

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, unless they look ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 look	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	5 look	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	they					ill property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Yes, only wild animals have germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 animals	advmod
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	wild animals	germs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient

Option 3

Yes, shops clean them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 clean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clean	nsubj
4	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present	shops	them = they					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, any animal can carry germs, so wash your hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 carry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 carry	aux
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carry	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wash	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 wash	advmod
10	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 carry	conj
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	can	any animal	germs					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	wash	infinitive	any animal not said here	your hands					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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