Test 5 · The Silk Road

How can trade spread a disease?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: trade · What happens: spread · To what, where: disease

This is test 5 of lesson 28 «The Silk Road» of the geography 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 spread	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux
3	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	nsubj
4	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 disease	det
6	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 spread	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	can	trade	a disease					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disease=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Traders, animals and goods carry germs and fleas between places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carry	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 animals	punct
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Traders	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 goods	cc
5	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 Traders	conj
6	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carry	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fleas	cc
9	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 germs	conj
10	between	between	ADP	_	11 places	case
11	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Traders and animals and goods	germs and fleas				between places	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 2

Silk itself causes the illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 causes	nsubj
2	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	1 Silk	nmod:unmarked
3	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 illness	det
5	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 causes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Silk Silk	the illness					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition illness=Patient

Option 3

Diseases travel only by sea, never with traders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travel	nsubj
2	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 sea	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 sea	case
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travel	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 traders	punct
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 traders	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 traders	case
9	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travel	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present	Diseases	sea					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Trajectory

Option 4

Trade makes the air in markets poisonous, and people breathe it in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	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 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 markets	case
6	markets	market	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obl
7	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 breathe	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 breathe	cc
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 breathe	nsubj
11	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 breathe	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	11 breathe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Trade	the air		markets		poisonous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset air=Product
2	breathe	present	people	air					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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