Test 6 · ★ · Germs, the immune system and hand-washing
A cut gets red, hot, spreads, and you get a fever. What then?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cut, you · What happens: get, spread · To what, where: fever
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 30 «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» 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: A cut gets red, hot, spreads, and you get a fever.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cut | det |
| 2 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gets | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hot | punct |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 red | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spreads | punct |
| 8 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gets | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 get | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gets | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fever | det |
| 14 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a cut | red property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | spread | present | a cut not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | present | you | a fever | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fever=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 then?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 What | advmod |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Put mud on it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | mud | mud | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mud=Theme on it=Destination |
Option 2
Squeeze it hard to push the germs out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Squeeze | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Squeeze | obj |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Squeeze | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 push | mark |
| 5 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Squeeze | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 germs | det |
| 7 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 push | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 push | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | imperative | you not said here | it | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | push out | to-infinitive | you not said here | the germs | out property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Ignore it, red always means it is healing well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ignore | ignore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Ignore | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 red | punct |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Ignore | parataxis |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 means | advmod |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 healing | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 healing | aux |
| 9 | healing | heal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 means | ccomp |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 healing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | infinitive | it | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | always property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | heal | present · progressive | it | well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
See a doctor, the infection may be spreading
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 doctor | det |
| 3 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 See | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 spreading | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 infection | det |
| 6 | infection | infection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spreading | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 spreading | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 spreading | aux |
| 9 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 See | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | a doctor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | spread | may · progressive | the infection | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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