Test 1 · ★★★ · Vaccinations and why

Mate: "vaccines are pointless, nobody gets measles anymore". What's the catch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: vaccines, nobody, catch · What happens: be, get · To what, where: measles

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 29 «Vaccinations and why» 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: Mate: "vaccines are pointless, nobody gets measles anymore".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 pointless	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 pointless	punct
4	vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pointless	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pointless	cop
6	pointless	pointless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mate	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gets	punct
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 gets	nsubj
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pointless	parataxis
10	measles	measle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gets	obj
11	anymore	anymore	ADV	_	9 gets	advmod
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 gets	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	vaccines					pointless property	tree rules
2	get in a quote	present	nobody	measles				anymore property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer measle=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.

Sentence 2: What's the catch?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 catch	det
4	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Measles is rare because of vaccines, and comes back when fewer are vaccinated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Measles	measle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rare	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rare	cop
3	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 vaccines	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 because	fixed
6	vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rare	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 comes	cc
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rare	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 comes	advmod
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 vaccinated	mark
12	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 vaccinated	nsubj:pass
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 vaccinated	aux:pass
14	vaccinated	vaccinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 comes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Measles		because vaccines; rare property	tree rules
2	come back	present	Measles not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	vaccinate	present · passive		fewer		tree rules

Option 2

He's right, measles is extinct like the dinosaurs and can never come back again

The tree, 15 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	_	7 extinct	punct
5	measles	measle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 extinct	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 extinct	cop
7	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 dinosaurs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dinosaurs	det
10	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 extinct	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 come	advmod
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 right	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	again	again	ADV	_	14 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He		right property	tree rules
2	is	present	measles		like the dinosaurs; extinct property	tree rules
3	not come back	can	He not said here	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Measles was never dangerous, just a few spots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Measles	measle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dangerous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 dangerous	advmod
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spots	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 spots	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 spots	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spots	amod
9	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Measles					a few spots obl; dangerous property	tree rules

Option 4

Only adults catch measles, so children don't need it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 adults	advmod
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	nsubj
3	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	measles	measle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 need	advmod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 need	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 need	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 need	advmod
10	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 catch	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	adults	measles					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measle=Theme
2	not need	present · do-support	children	it					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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