Test 10 · ★★ · Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens

Why does hay fever get worse on dry, windy days in summer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hay fever · What happens: get

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Hay fever, allergies and EpiPens» 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	5 get	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fever	compound
4	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 get	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 days	case
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dry	punct
10	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 summer	case
13	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · do-support	hay fever				day; summer	bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

The sun burns the inside of the nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burns	nsubj
3	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 inside	det
5	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burns	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 nose	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nose	det
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inside	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	the sun	the inside of the nose					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent inside=Theme

Option 2

Wind carries cold viruses about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carries	nsubj
2	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 viruses	amod
4	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carries	obj
5	about	about	ADV	_	2 carries	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Wind	cold viruses				about property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virus=Theme

Option 3

Summer air has less oxygen in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 air	compound
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 oxygen	amod
5	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 has	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Summer air	less oxygen		oxygen			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

More pollen is blown around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 pollen	amod
2	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blown	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blown	aux:pass
4	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	around	around	ADV	_	4 blown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow around	present · passive		More pollen				around property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient

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