Test 9 · ★ · Germs, the immune system and hand-washing

Why do you wash between fingers and under nails, not just palms?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wash · To what, where: palms

This is test 9 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wash	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wash	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 wash	nsubj
4	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 fingers	case
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wash	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nails	cc
8	under	under	ADP	_	9 nails	case
9	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fingers	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 palms	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 palms	advmod
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 palms	advmod
13	palms	palm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wash	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wash	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present · do-support	you	palms				between fingers and nails	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Palms have no skin for germs to sit on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Palms	palm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 germs	case
6	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sit	mark
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 germs	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 sit	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Palms	no skin				for germs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
2	sit on	to-infinitive	Palms not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It looks nicer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	It					nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Nails clean themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clean	nsubj
2	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present	Nails	Nails = nail					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Germs hide there too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hide	nsubj
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 hide	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 hide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Germs			there			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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