Test 18 · ★★ · Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather

omg a girl coughed all over the bus and the WHOLE school got sick for a month, what's the real lesson

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, WHOLE school, month · What happens: cough, get, be · To what, where: bus, real lesson

This is test 18 · ★★ 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	omg	omg	INTJ	_	4 coughed	discourse
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coughed	nsubj
4	coughed	cough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 bus	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 bus	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bus	det
8	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coughed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 got	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 school	det
11	WHOLE	WHOLE	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 school	compound
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 coughed	conj
14	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 got	xcomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 month	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 month	det
17	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lesson	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 lesson	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 lesson	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lesson	det
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lesson	amod
23	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 month	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cough	past	a girl	the bus			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bus=Theme
2	get	past	the WHOLE school		month	sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	a month and the real lesson	the real 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 · ← Mova's choice

Never take the bus, it is full of germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 take	advmod
2	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 full	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bus	det
4	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 full	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 full	cop
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 germs	case
10	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	infinitive	bus not said here	the bus					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bus=Theme
2	is	present	bus					of germs; full property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cough and sneeze into a tissue or your elbow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sneeze	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sneeze	cc
3	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 tissue	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tissue	det
6	tissue	tissue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sneeze	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 elbow	cc
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 elbow	nmod:poss
9	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tissue	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze	infinitive	Cough			a tissue or your elbow			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Coughs only spread to people who are weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coughs	cough	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 spread	advmod
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 weak	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 weak	cop
8	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past	Coughs					to people	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	people					weak property	tree rules

Option 4

Hold your breath when someone coughs nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 breath	nmod:poss
3	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obj
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 coughs	mark
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 coughs	nsubj
6	coughs	cough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	advcl
7	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	6 coughs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	your breath					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
2	cough	present	someone					nearby property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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