Test 4 · ★ · COVID and staying home

Josh says the COVID vaccines were rushed with no tests. What's true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Josh · What happens: say, rush, be · To what, where: COVID vaccines · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 12 «COVID and staying home» 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: Josh says the COVID vaccines were rushed with no tests.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 vaccines	det
4	COVID	COVID	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 vaccines	compound
5	vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rushed	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rushed	aux:pass
7	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 says	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 tests	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 tests	det
10	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rushed	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Josh						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rush	past · passive		the COVID vaccines				with no tests	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory

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?

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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

He's right, there was no testing at all, they just sent them out to people

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 testing	det
8	testing	testing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 testing	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sent	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sent	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 sent	advmod
14	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sent	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	14 sent	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 people	case
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	He				right property	tree rules
2	be	past	no testing at all			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	send out	past	they	them = they	people			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to people=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They went through normal trials faster thanks to huge resources

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 trials	case
4	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trials	amod
5	trials	trial	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 went	advmod
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 resources	case
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 resources	amod
10	resources	resource	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thanks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	They	thanks to huge resources		normal trials		fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through trial=Initial_Location

Option 3

They are just water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 water	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 water	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 water	advmod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	water					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They were made in a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

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

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