Test 6 · ★ · The dentist and washing your hands

Why do we wash hands after cleaning a hamster's cage?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: we · What happens: wash, clean · To what, where: hands, cage

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wash	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wash	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wash	nsubj
4	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wash	obj
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 cleaning	mark
7	cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wash	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hamster	det
9	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cage	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 hamster	case
11	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cleaning	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wash	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present · do-support	we	hands					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	clean	gerund	we not said here	a hamster's cage					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cage=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

The cage makes your skin itchy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cage	det
2	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 skin	nmod:poss
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	itchy	itchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the cage	your skin				itchy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material skin=Product

Option 2

Hamsters are poisonous to touch with bare hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 poisonous	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	cop
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 touch	mark
5	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 poisonous	advcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hands	amod
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 touch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Hamsters					poisonous property	tree rules
2	touch	to-infinitive	Hamsters not said here					with bare hands	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Pets can carry germs that make people ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 germs	acl:relcl
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	can	Pets	germs					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	make	present	germs	people				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product

Option 4

So the hamster does not smell us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 smell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hamster	det
3	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smell	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 smell	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 smell	advmod
6	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 smell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not smell	present · do-support	the hamster	us					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus

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