Test 12 · ★★★ · Vaccinations and why

If your body met a germ for the first time with no vaccine, why would you get more ill?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: body, you · What happens: meet, get · To what, where: germ

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 met	mark
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 body	nmod:poss
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 germ	det
6	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 vaccine	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 vaccine	det
13	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 get	advmod
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 get	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 get	nsubj
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 met	parataxis
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 ill	advmod
20	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 get	xcomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	your body	a germ			time		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent
2	get	would	you					ill 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

You'd have no blood cells to fight with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 cells	det
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cells	compound
6	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fight	mark
8	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	8 fight	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	You	no blood cells					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient
2	fight	to-infinitive	You not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Germs are always stronger the first time they meet you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stronger	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stronger	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 stronger	advmod
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stronger	obl:unmarked
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 meet	nsubj
9	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 time	acl:relcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 meet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Germs				time	always, strong property	tree rules
2	meet	present	Germs = germ	you					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Vaccines make germs weaker everywhere in the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 make	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Vaccines	germs		the world		everywhere, weak property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset germ=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The immune system would take days to learn to fight it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 system	det
2	immune	immune	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 system	compound
3	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 learn	mark
8	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	csubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fight	mark
10	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 learn	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fight	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	take	would	the immune system		day	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	learn	to-infinitive				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fight	to-infinitive		system		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent

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