Test 5 · ★ · Food, drinks and feeling ill

Why do children in the UK stay off school for 48 hours after a tummy bug?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: children · What happens: stay off · To what, where: school

This is test 5 · ★ 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	7 stay	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stay	aux
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stay	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 UK	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 UK	det
6	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 children	nmod
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 stay	compound:prt
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 hours	case
11	48	48	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 hours	nummod
12	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stay	obl
13	after	after	ADP	_	16 bug	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bug	det
15	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bug	compound
16	bug	bug	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay off	present · do-support	children in the UK	school			after a tummy bug; hour		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

The tummy is too weak to sit up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tummy	det
2	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weak	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 weak	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 weak	advmod
5	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sit	mark
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 weak	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 sit	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tummy					weak property	tree rules
2	sit up	to-infinitive	the tummy not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Teachers need time to clean all the desks and chairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 clean	mark
5	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 time	acl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 desks	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 desks	det
8	desks	desk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clean	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 chairs	cc
10	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 desks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Teachers				time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	clean	to-infinitive	Teachers not said here	all desks and chairs					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent desk=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tummy bugs spread very easily to others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bugs	compound
2	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	nsubj
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 easily	advmod
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 spread	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 others	case
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	present	Tummy bugs					to others; easily property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It is a rule about school dinners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rule	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rule	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rule	det
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 dinners	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dinners	compound
7	dinners	dinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rule	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rule				about school dinners	tree rules

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