Test 8 · ★ · Getting better, caring for others and medicines

Why do we keep our distance from a friend with a bad cold?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: keep · To what, where: distance

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 82 «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» 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	4 keep	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 distance	nmod:poss
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 friend	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friend	det
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 cold	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cold	det
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cold	amod
13	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	we	our distance				from a friend; with a bad cold	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer distance=Beneficiary from friend=Eventuality

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 right answer

Germs can spread from them to us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
3	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spread	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	can	Germs		us			from them = they	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Colds make people grumpy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Colds	people				grumpy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Colds are caught by looking at someone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caught	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	aux:pass
3	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 looking	mark
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 caught	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 someone	case
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present · passive		Colds					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	look	gerund						at someone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at someone=Theme

Option 4

It is rude to stand close to people

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	3 rude	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stand	mark
5	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rude	xcomp
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stand	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					rude property	tree rules
2	stand	to-infinitive						close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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