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Test 8 · Changing-room germs

Hannah: «It's only a towel, what's the big deal?» Best reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: It, towel · What happens: be · To what, where: towel, big deal

This is test 8 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: Hannah: «It's only a towel, what's the big deal?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Hannah	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 towel	punct
4	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 towel	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 towel	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 towel	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 towel	det
8	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hannah	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 deal	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 deal	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 deal	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 deal	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 deal	amod
14	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 towel	appos
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 deal	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 towel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	It	a towel					tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	a towel	the big deal					tree rules

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: Best reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 reply	amod
2	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reply	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Damp shared towels carry skin germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 towels	amod
2	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 towels	amod
3	towels	towel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	nsubj
4	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 germs	compound
6	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	participle							tree rules
2	carry	present	Damp shared towels	skin germs					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 2

Only new towels carry germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 towels	advmod
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 towels	amod
3	towels	towel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	nsubj
4	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	new towels	germs					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 3

Towels can't hold any germs once they're dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Towels	towel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hold	advmod
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 germs	det
6	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	obj
7	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 dry	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dry	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dry	cop
10	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hold	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hold	can	Towels	any germs					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	is	present	Towels = towel					dry property	tree rules

Option 4

Molly's towel is cleaner than hers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 towel	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Molly	case
3	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleaner	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cleaner	cop
5	cleaner	clean	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 hers	case
7	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cleaner	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Molly's towel					than Molly; clean property	tree rules

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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