Test 1 · Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends

letter home about nits, my mate says it's 'cos some kids are dirty. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: letter, mate · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 11 «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» of the medicine 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	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 letter	advmod
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 nits	case
4	nits	nit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 letter	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mate	nmod:poss
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dirty	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 dirty	cop
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 dirty	punct
12	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	14 kids	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 kids	det
14	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 dirty	obl
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 dirty	cop
16	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 says	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 dirty	punct
18	right	right	INTJ	_	8 says	discourse
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	letter about nits						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	mate					cos some kids; dirty property	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

No, they come from pigeons in the playground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 pigeons	case
6	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 playground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 playground	det
9	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	they			pigeons		in the playground	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pigeon=Initial_Location

Option 2

Yes, they come from unwashed clothes and coats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 clothes	case
6	unwashed	unwashed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clothes	amod
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 come	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 coats	cc
9	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 clothes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	they			unwashed clothes and coats			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from clothes=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, lice like clean hair as much as dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 lice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 hair	case
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lice	nmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 dirty	case
10	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 much	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yes, only the dirty kids get them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kids	det
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kids	amod
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the dirty kids	them = they					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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