Test 10 · ★ · Food, drinks and feeling ill

Why should you not scratch chickenpox?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: not scratch · To what, where: chickenpox

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 81 «Food, drinks and feeling ill» 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 scratch	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 scratch	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 scratch	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 scratch	advmod
5	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	chickenpox	chickenpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scratch	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 scratch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not scratch	should	you	chickenpox					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chickenpox=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

Scratching makes the illness last a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 illness	det
4	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 last	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	scratch	gerund				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present		the illness		tree rules
3	last	infinitive	the illness not said here		year	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Scratching turns the spots into warts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratching	scratching	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spots	det
4	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turns	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 warts	case
6	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Scratching	the spots		warts			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent spot=Theme into wart=Trajectory

Option 3

Scratching spreads the spots to your hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 spreads	nsubj
2	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spots	det
4	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spreads	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 hair	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hair	nmod:poss
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spreads	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	gerund							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spread	present		the spots				to your hair	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spot=Theme

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

Scratching can cause infection and scars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratching	scratching	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cause	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cause	aux
3	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cause	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scars	cc
6	scars	scar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 infection	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	can	Scratching	infection and scars					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition infection=Patient

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