Test 4 · Changing-room germs
Half of Aiden's team drinks from one bottle. What would happen if one player had a stomach bug?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Half, one player · What happens: drink, happen, have · To what, where: one bottle, stomach bug
This is test 4 of lesson 59 «Changing-room germs» 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: Half of Aiden's team drinks from one bottle.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 drinks | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 team | case |
| 3 | Aiden | Aiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 team | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Aiden | case |
| 5 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Half | nmod |
| 6 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 bottle | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 bottle | nummod |
| 9 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drinks | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drinks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present | Half of Aiden's team | one bottle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from bottle=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 would happen if one player had a stomach bug?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 player | nummod |
| 6 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bug | det |
| 9 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bug | compound |
| 10 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | one player | a stomach bug | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only the very last player to drink gets ill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 player | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 player | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 last | advmod |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 player | amod |
| 5 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 drink | mark |
| 7 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 player | acl |
| 8 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gets | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | to-infinitive | the last player not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | present | the last player | ill property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Several teammates could catch it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 teammates | amod |
| 2 | teammates | teammate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 catch | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 catch | aux |
| 4 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 catch | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | could | Several teammates | it | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
Wiping the top on a shirt stops it spreading
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wiping | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stops | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 top | det |
| 3 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wiping | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 shirt | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shirt | det |
| 6 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wiping | obl |
| 7 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stops | obj |
| 9 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stops | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wipe | gerund | the top | a shirt | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent top=Theme on shirt=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stop | present | Wiping | top | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spread | gerund | Wiping not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
The bug would die as soon as it hit the bottle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bug | det |
| 2 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 die | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | aux |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 die | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 hit | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hit | nsubj |
| 9 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottle | det |
| 11 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | would | the bug | soon property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hit | past | bug | the bottle | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bottle=Co-Theme |
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