Test 9 · ★ · Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent
In a soap opera a kid catches cancer from his best mate. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: catch, be · To what, where: cancer, soap
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 33 «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» 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: In a soap opera a kid catches cancer from his best mate.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 soap | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 soap | det |
| 3 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catches | obl |
| 4 | opera | opera | ADP | _ | 6 kid | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kid | det |
| 6 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soap | nmod |
| 7 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catches | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 mate | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mate | nmod:poss |
| 11 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 mate | amod |
| 12 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catches | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 catches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present | cancer | a soap opera a kid | from kid's best mate | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cancer=Theme from mate=Source |
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's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Only between best friends who share everything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 friends | advmod |
| 2 | between | between | ADP | _ | 4 friends | case |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 friends | amod |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 share | nsubj |
| 6 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 friends | acl:relcl |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 share | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | best friends | everything | tree rules |
Option 2
Only in hot countries, where it spreads more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 countries | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 countries | case |
| 3 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 countries | amod |
| 4 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spreads | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spreads | punct |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 spreads | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spreads | nsubj |
| 8 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 spreads | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | hot countries | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nothing, it spreads like flu does
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 does | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spreads | nsubj |
| 4 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Nothing | acl:relcl |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 flu | case |
| 6 | flu | flu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spreads | obl |
| 7 | does | do | 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 | spread | present | it | like flu | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Cancer can't be caught from someone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 caught | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 caught | aux:pass |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 someone | case |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 caught | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not catch | can · passive | Cancer | someone | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from someone=Source |
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