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Test 7 · ★ · Germs, the immune system and hand-washing

Mum buys super antibacterial soap "to kill 99.9%". Is ordinary soap enough?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: buy, kill, be · To what, where: antibacterial soap, ordinary soap

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Mum buys super antibacterial soap "to kill 99.9%".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buys	nsubj
2	buys	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 antibacterial	advmod
4	antibacterial	antibacterial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soap	amod
5	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buys	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 soap	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 kill	mark
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 buys	advcl
9	99.9	99.9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 %	nummod
10	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	8 kill	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 %	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 buys	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	present	Mum	antibacterial soap					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soap=Theme
2	kill in a quote	to-infinitive	Mum not said here						vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Theme

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: Is ordinary soap enough?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 soap	cop
2	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soap	amod
3	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 soap	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 soap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		ordinary soap				enough property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, ordinary soap and good washing work well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 soap	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 soap	punct
3	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soap	amod
4	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 work	cc
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 work	amod
7	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 work	compound
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soap	conj
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 work	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

No, normal soap does nothing at all against germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 normal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soap	amod
4	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	nsubj
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 does	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 nothing	nmod
9	against	against	ADP	_	10 germs	case
10	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 does	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	normal soap	nothing		all		against germs	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Only antibacterial soap works properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 antibacterial	advmod
2	antibacterial	antibacterial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soap	amod
3	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	4 works	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	antibacterial soap					properly property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Only very hot water works

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 water	advmod
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 hot	advmod
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 works	nsubj
5	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	hot water						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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