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Test 2 · ★★ · Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather

A girl in Melbourne has a cold and asks her doctor for antibiotics. What will the doctor probably explain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, doctor · What happens: have, ask, explain · To what, where: cold, doctor

This is test 2 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl in Melbourne has a cold and asks her doctor for antibiotics.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Melbourne	case
4	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cold	det
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asks	cc
9	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 doctor	nmod:poss
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asks	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 antibiotics	case
13	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 asks	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a girl in Melbourne	a cold					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	present	a girl in Melbourne not said here	girl's doctor				for antibiotics	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient

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.

Sentence 2: What will the doctor probably explain?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 explain	obj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 explain	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 explain	nsubj
5	probably	probably	ADV	_	6 explain	advmod
6	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 explain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	future	the doctor					probably property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Antibiotics do not work on viruses, and rest and fluids help a cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 work	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 work	advmod
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 viruses	case
6	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 help	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 help	cc
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 help	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fluids	cc
11	fluids	fluid	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rest	conj
12	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 work	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cold	det
14	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	present · do-support	Antibiotics					on viruses	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on virus=Theme
2	help	present	rest and fluids	a cold					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Beneficiary

Option 2

Antibiotics cure colds in one hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cure	nsubj
2	cure	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cure	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hour	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hour	nummod
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cure	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	present	Antibiotics	colds			hour		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cold=Source

Option 3

Antibiotics make the cold spread less to others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Antibiotics	antibiotic	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 cold	det
4	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spread	nsubj
5	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 make	ccomp
6	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 spread	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 others	case
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Antibiotics						tree rules
2	spread	past	the cold					to others; less property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

She needs antibiotics for every sneeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 needs	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 sneeze	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sneeze	det
6	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	She	antibiotics				for every sneeze	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot antibiotic=Theme

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.

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