Test 4 · ★★★ · The age of science

If smallpox no longer exists anywhere in the wild, why do we not vaccinate children against it today?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: smallpox, we · What happens: exist, not vaccinate · To what, where: wild, children

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 29 «The age of science» of the history 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 exists	mark
2	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exists	nsubj
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 exists	advmod
5	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 vaccinate	advcl
6	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 exists	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 wild	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wild	det
9	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exists	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 vaccinate	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 vaccinate	advmod
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 vaccinate	aux
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 vaccinate	nsubj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 vaccinate	advmod
15	vaccinate	vaccinate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 vaccinate	obj
17	against	against	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 children	nmod
19	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 vaccinate	obl:unmarked
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 vaccinate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist a condition, not said to happen	present	smallpox			the wild		anywhere, long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location
2	not vaccinate	present · do-support	we	children			today	against smallpox	tree rules

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

Smallpox is now completely harmless to children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harmless	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 harmless	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 harmless	advmod
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	5 harmless	advmod
5	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harmless	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Smallpox				now	to children; completely, harmless property	tree rules

Option 2

Children cannot have vaccines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	can	Children	vaccines					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vaccine=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

There is no smallpox left to catch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 smallpox	det
4	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 smallpox	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 catch	mark
7	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 left	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	present	no smallpox		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	participle		no smallpox not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	to-infinitive				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The vaccine was lost a long time ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vaccine	det
2	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ago	obl:unmarked
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 lost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		the vaccine				ago property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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