Test 17 · ★ · The dentist and washing your hands

omg did u hear half the kids at Zoe's party threw up for like a week cos nobody washed their hands, what's the lesson

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, party, nobody · What happens: hear, throw up, wash, be · To what, where: kids, hands, lesson

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 75 «The dentist and washing your hands» 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	omg	omg	INTJ	_	4 hear	discourse
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 kids	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kids	det
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	obj
8	at	at	SCONJ	_	12 threw	mark
9	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 party	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Zoe	case
11	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	nsubj
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	parataxis
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 threw	compound:prt
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 washed	mark
15	like	like	SCONJ	_	20 washed	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 week	det
17	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 washed	obl:unmarked
18	cos	cos	PART	_	17 week	case
19	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 washed	nsubj
20	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 threw	advcl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hands	nmod:poss
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 washed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lesson	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 lesson	nsubj
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 lesson	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lesson	det
27	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	half kids		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus
2	throw up	past	Zoe's party			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wash	past	nobody	kids's hands	week	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	is a	present		the lesson		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

Parties are dangerous, never go to one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dangerous	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dangerous	cop
3	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 dangerous	parataxis
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Parties					dangerous property	tree rules
2	not go	infinitive			one				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial_Location

Option 2

Only the cake made them sick, hands don't matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cake	det
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 matter	punct
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 matter	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 matter	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 matter	advmod
11	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the cake	them = they				sick property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product
2	not matter	present · do-support	hands						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Wash hands only if they look dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wash	obj
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 look	advmod
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 look	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wash	advcl
7	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	hands					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	look a condition, not said to happen	present	hands = hand					dirty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

Wash your hands with soap before eating and after the toilet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wash	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 soap	case
5	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wash	obl
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 eating	mark
7	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wash	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 toilet	cc
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 toilet	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 toilet	det
11	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eating	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	your hands				with soap	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument
2	eat	gerund	you not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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