Test 8 · Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends
Grandad says scarlet fever is a deadly disease from olden days. What's true now?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad, scarlet fever · What happens: say, be · To what, where: deadly disease · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 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
Sentence 1: Grandad says scarlet fever is a deadly disease from olden days.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fever | compound |
| 4 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 disease | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 disease | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 disease | det |
| 7 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 disease | amod |
| 8 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 10 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 days | amod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 disease | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Grandad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | scarlet fever | a deadly disease | day | 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.
Sentence 2: What's true now?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 true | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | now | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It can't be treated by anyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 treated | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 treated | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 treated | aux:pass |
| 5 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 anyone | case |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 treated | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not treat | can · passive | anyone | It | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
Option 2
It's still always deadly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 deadly | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 deadly | cop |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 deadly | advmod |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 deadly | advmod |
| 5 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | still | always, deadly property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It's easily treated with antibiotics
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 treated | aux |
| 3 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 4 treated | advmod |
| 4 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 antibiotics | case |
| 6 | antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 treated | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | present · passive | It | with antibiotics; easily property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with antibiotic=Theme |
Option 4
It only ever happens to grown-ups
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 happens | advmod |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 happens | advmod |
| 4 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ups | case |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ups | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 grown | punct |
| 8 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happens | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | It | ever | to grown ups | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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