Test 5 · ★★★ · Vaccinations and why

Why was smallpox possible to wipe out, while colds are not?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, wipe out

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 possible	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 possible	cop
3	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possible	compound
4	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wipe	mark
6	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 possible	csubj
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 wipe	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 colds	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 colds	case
10	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 possible	parataxis
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 not	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 colds	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 possible	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						possible property	tree rules
2	wipe out	to-infinitive							vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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.

The options

Option 1

Smallpox was a mild disease that nobody minded catching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disease	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disease	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 disease	det
4	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 disease	amod
5	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 minded	obj
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 minded	nsubj
8	minded	mind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disease	acl:relcl
9	catching	catching	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 minded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Smallpox	a mild disease					tree rules
2	mind	past	nobody	a mild disease					tree rules

Option 2

Colds have been wiped out too, but they keep coming back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wiped	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wiped	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 wiped	aux:pass
4	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 wiped	compound:prt
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 wiped	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 keep	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 keep	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keep	nsubj
10	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wiped	advcl
11	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 keep	xcomp
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wipe out	present · perfect · passive		Colds	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
2	keep	present	Colds = cold		tree rules
3	come back	gerund	Colds = cold not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Smallpox lived only in cows, so the cows were kept away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smallpox	Smallpox	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 cows	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 cows	case
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 kept	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cows	det
9	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kept	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kept	aux:pass
11	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lived	advcl
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Smallpox					in cows	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cow=Location
2	keep away	past · passive		the cows				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Smallpox had an effective vaccine and only infected humans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smallpox	Smallpox	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vaccine	det
4	effective	effective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 vaccine	amod
5	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 humans	cc
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 humans	advmod
8	infected	infected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 humans	amod
9	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 vaccine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Smallpox	a effective vaccine and infected humans					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vaccine=Patient

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