Test 12 · ★★ · Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather

nan says dont go out w wet hair u'll catch a cold

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: nan, dont, wet hair · What happens: say, go out, catch · To what, where: cold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ 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	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dont	dont	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	w	with	ADP	Abbr=Yes	11 catch	mark
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hair	amod
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 catch	nsubj
9	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 catch	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 catch	aux
11	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cold	det
13	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	nan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go out	infinitive	dont		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	catch	future	wet hair	a cold		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=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

Yes, wet hair gives you a cold every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 wet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	nsubj
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 gives	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cold	det
8	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	wet hair	a cold	you		time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cold=Theme

Option 2

Yes, but only in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 winter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 winter	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 winter	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

Colds come from viruses, not wet hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 viruses	case
4	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hair	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 wet	advmod
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hair	amod
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Colds	wet hair		viruses			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from virus=Initial_Location

Option 4

Only if your hair is very long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 long	mark
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 long	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 long	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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