Test 9 · ★ · COVID and staying home

Why do we gel our hands coming into class even if they look clean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, hands · What happens: gel, come, look · To what, where: hands, class

This is test 9 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gel	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gel	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 gel	nsubj
4	gel	gel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gel	obj
7	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 look	csubj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 class	case
9	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coming	obl
10	even	even	ADV	_	13 look	advmod
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 look	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 look	nsubj
13	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gel	parataxis
14	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 look	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gel	present · do-support	we	our hands			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	come	gerund			class		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into class=Initial_Location
3	look a condition, not said to happen	present	hands = hand			clean property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

It makes hands smell nice

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	hands					tree rules
2	smell	infinitive	hands not said here					nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It makes pencils stick to fingers

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pencils	pencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 fingers	case
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	pencils					tree rules
2	stick	infinitive	pencils not said here					to fingers	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to finger=Co-Patient

Option 3

It's just a rule with no reason behind it

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 rule	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rule	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 rule	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rule	det
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 reason	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 reason	det
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rule	nmod
9	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reason	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rule				with no reason behind reason	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Gel kills many germs we can't see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gel	gel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kills	nsubj
2	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 germs	amod
4	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kills	obj
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 see	advmod
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 germs	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	Gel	many germs					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	not see	can	we	many germs not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer germ=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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