Test 9 · Burns, sunburn and stings

Ant sting abroad, got some cream at A&E. Are foreign bites always dangerous?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ant sting, cream · What happens: get, be · To what, where: foreign bites

This is test 9 of lesson 6 «Burns, sunburn and stings» 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	Ant	ant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sting	amod
2	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
3	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	2 sting	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sting	punct
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 cream	det
7	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bites	nsubj
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 E.	case
9	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 E.	det
10	&	&	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 E.	compound
11	E.	E.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cream	nmod
12	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bites	cop
13	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bites	amod
14	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	obj
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 dangerous	advmod
16	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bites	amod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Ant sting						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	some cream at a & E.	foreign bites					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, all foreign bites are deadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 deadly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bites	det
4	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bites	amod
5	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 deadly	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 deadly	cop
7	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all foreign bites					deadly property	tree rules

Option 2

No, foreign bites never hurt or swell at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 foreign	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bites	amod
4	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hurt	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 hurt	advmod
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 swell	cc
8	swell	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 swell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	present	foreign bites						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	swell	present	foreign bites not said here			all			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, most are not, but some need checking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 most	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 not	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 most	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 need	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 need	cc
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 need	nsubj
9	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 most	parataxis
10	checking	checking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	some	checking					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot checking=Theme

Option 4

Yes, you must fly home that same day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 fly	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fly	aux
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 day	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	must	you				day	home property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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