Test 12 · ★★ · Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years chang…
ugh a cold, gimme antibiotics. What would the doctor say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: doctor · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 65 «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» 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
Sentence 1: ugh a cold, gimme antibiotics.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ugh | ugh | INTJ | _ | 3 cold | discourse |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cold | det |
| 3 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 antibiotics | punct |
| 5 | gimme | gimme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 antibiotics | compound |
| 6 | antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cold | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cold | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What would the doctor say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doctor | det |
| 4 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | the doctor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Antibiotics do not work on viruses like colds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 work | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 work | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 work | advmod |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 viruses | case |
| 6 | viruses | virus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 work | obl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 colds | case |
| 8 | colds | cold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 viruses | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not work | present · do-support | Antibiotics | on viruses like colds | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on virus=Theme |
Option 2
Only if you take ten of them at once with juice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 take | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ten | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 take | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 juice | case |
| 11 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | you | ten of them | with juice | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent ten=Theme at once=Asset |
Option 3
Yes, antibiotics cure every illness, colds too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 cure | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cure | nsubj |
| 4 | cure | cure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 illness | det |
| 6 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cure | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 colds | punct |
| 8 | colds | cold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 illness | conj |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 cure | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | present | antibiotics | every illness and colds | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer illness=Source |
Option 4
Antibiotics are only for cows, not for people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cows | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cows | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 cows | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 cows | case |
| 5 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 people | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 people | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cows | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Antibiotics | for cows and people | tree rules |
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