Test 19 · ★★ · Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather

nan reckons if u go out with wet hair u'll catch ur death of cold, true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: nan, u, ur · What happens: reckon, go out, catch, die · To what, where: death

This is test 19 · ★★ 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 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 go	mark
4	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckons	ccomp
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 hair	case
8	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hair	amod
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 catch	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 catch	aux
12	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hair	acl:relcl
13	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 death	nmod:poss
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 catch	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 true	case
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 true	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cold	punct
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 death	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	nan			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go out a condition, not said to happen	present	u		with wet hair; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with hair=Co-Agent
3	catch	future	u	ur's death of cold true		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme
4	die		ur			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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

True, so wet hair must be dried in the oven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wet	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 wet	advmod
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dried	nsubj:pass
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 dried	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 dried	aux:pass
8	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 oven	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 oven	det
11	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	must · passive		True wet hair		the oven			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

Option 2

True, wet hair is what causes most colds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 colds	amod
9	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 what	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	True wet hair						tree rules
2	cause	present							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition

Option 3

True, but only in winter months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 months	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 months	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 months	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 months	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 months	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 months	compound
7	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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

No, colds come from viruses, not from wet hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
3	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 viruses	case
6	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hair	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 hair	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 hair	case
10	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hair	amod
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/79-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather/t19/