Test 3 · ★★ · Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather

Why is it a problem to take antibiotics when they are not needed?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, take, not need · To what, where: problem, antibiotics

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	5 problem	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 problem	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 problem	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 problem	det
5	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 problem	acl
8	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 needed	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 needed	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 needed	aux:pass
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 needed	advmod
13	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 take	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 problem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a problem	tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive		antibiotics	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antibiotic=Theme
3	not need	present · passive		antibiotics = antibiotic	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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

They make your hair fall out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 fall	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	your hair					tree rules
2	fall out	infinitive	your hair not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They turn into viruses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 viruses	case
4	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	They			viruses			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into virus=Trajectory

Option 3

They taste far too bitter for most children to swallow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 taste	nsubj
2	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 bitter	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 bitter	advmod
5	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 taste	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 children	case
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 children	amod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taste	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 swallow	mark
10	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 taste	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	They					for most children; bitter property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	swallow	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

They can work less well later when really needed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 work	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 work	aux
3	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 later	advmod
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 work	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 needed	advmod
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 needed	advmod
9	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 work	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	can	They					late property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	need	participle	They not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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