Test 10 · ★★ · Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather

Why does a tissue or an elbow work better than hands for a sneeze?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: tissue

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather» 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	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tissue	det
4	tissue	tissue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 work	cc
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 work	det
7	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 work	compound
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tissue	conj
9	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 does	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 hands	case
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 better	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 sneeze	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sneeze	det
14	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a tissue or a elbow work				for a sneeze; well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tissue=Eventuality

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

Tissues make the sneeze shorter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tissues	tissue	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sneeze	det
4	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Tissues	the sneeze				short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sneeze=Product

Option 2

Hands are already too clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clean	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clean	cop
3	already	already	ADV	_	5 clean	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 clean	advmod
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Hands					clean property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hands touch many things and pass the germs on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 touch	nsubj
2	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 touch	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pass	cc
6	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 touch	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 germs	det
8	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pass	obj
9	on	on	ADV	_	6 pass	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	present	Hands	many things					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Co-Theme
2	pass	present	Hands not said here	the germs					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme germ=Trajectory

Option 4

Elbows kill germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kill	nsubj
2	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	Elbows	germs					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

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