Test 5 · Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends

Can you dig out a verruca by its roots?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: dig out · To what, where: verruca

This is test 5 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	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 dig	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 dig	nsubj
3	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 dig	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 verruca	det
6	verruca	verruca	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dig	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 roots	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 roots	nmod:poss
9	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dig	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 dig	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig out	can	you	a verruca				by verruca's roots	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent verruca=Theme by root=Location

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

Yes, with a needle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 needle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 needle	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 needle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 needle	det
5	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

No, the roots are made of bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roots	det
4	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 bone	case
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the roots				of bone	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, verrucas don't have roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	verrucas	verruca	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present · do-support	verrucas	roots					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient

Option 4

Yes, the roots are deep like a plant's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 deep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roots	det
4	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deep	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deep	cop
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 plant	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plant	det
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deep	obl
10	's	's	PART	_	9 plant	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the roots					like a plant; deep property	tree rules

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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