Test 7 · ★★★ · A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions
Two people with cystic fibrosis are told to keep apart. Why, if it's not catching?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Two people, fibrosis · What happens: tell, keep, not catch · To what, where: Two people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 16 «A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions» 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: Two people with cystic fibrosis are told to keep apart.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 people | nummod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 fibrosis | case |
| 4 | cystic | cystic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fibrosis | amod |
| 5 | fibrosis | fibrosis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 keep | mark |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | xcomp |
| 10 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 9 keep | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | Two people with cystic fibrosis | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | Two people with cystic fibrosis not said here | apart property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: Why, if it's not catching?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 catching | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 catching | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 catching | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 catching | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 catching | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 catching | advmod |
| 7 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 catching | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not catch | present · progressive | fibrosis | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
To avoid passing germs between them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 avoid | mark |
| 2 | avoid | avoid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 germs | amod |
| 4 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 avoid | obj |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 avoid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avoid | to-infinitive | passing germs | between germs = germ | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent germ=Location | ||||
| 2 | pass | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Because they don't like each other
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 like | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 5 like | obj |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | present · do-support | they | each | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot each=Theme |
Option 3
Because CF does spread by touch after all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 spread | mark |
| 2 | CF | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | aux |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 touch | case |
| 6 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obl |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 spread | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present · passive · do-support | touch | CF | after all | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
Option 4
Because it's a rule for fun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 rule | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rule | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rule | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rule | det |
| 5 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 fun | case |
| 7 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rule | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a rule | for fun | 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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