Test 9 · Changing-room germs
Bongani: «Now now it's clean, lekker», after rinsing in his fizzy cooldrink. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bongani · What happens: be, rinse · To what, where: fizzy cooldrink
This is test 9 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: Bongani: «Now now it's clean, lekker», after rinsing in his fizzy cooldrink.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bongani | Bongani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 clean | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 clean | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 clean | punct |
| 4 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 now | advmod |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 clean | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 clean | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 clean | cop |
| 8 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lekker | punct |
| 10 | lekker | lekker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clean | conj |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 lekker | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rinsing | punct |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 rinsing | mark |
| 14 | rinsing | rinse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 clean | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 cooldrink | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cooldrink | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cooldrink | amod |
| 18 | cooldrink | cooldrink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rinsing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 clean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Bongani | now | clean property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rinse | gerund | Bongani not said here | Bongani's fizzy cooldrink | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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.
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
Nothing, it's perfectly clean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 clean | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 clean | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 clean | cop |
| 5 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 6 clean | advmod |
| 6 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | clean, perfectly property | tree rules |
Option 2
He should use orange juice instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 use | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | aux |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 juice | amod |
| 5 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | obj |
| 6 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 3 use | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | should | He | orange juice | instead property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent juice=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Sugar feeds germs, and sharing spreads them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feeds | nsubj |
| 2 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feeds | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spreads | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spreads | cc |
| 6 | sharing | share | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 spreads | nsubj |
| 7 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 feeds | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spreads | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present | Sugar | germs | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | share | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | spread | present | germs = germ | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
Option 4
Fizzy drinks kill all germs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 drinks | amod |
| 2 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 germs | det |
| 5 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kill | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | Fizzy drinks | all germs | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
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