Test 1 · ★★★ · Colds and flu

nan reckons I'll get a cold going out with wet hair. true or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan, I, cold · What happens: reckon, get, go out · To what, where: cold

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 7 «Colds and flu» 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	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reckons	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cold	det
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 get	xcomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 going	compound:prt
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 hair	case
11	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hair	amod
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reckons	parataxis
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 nah	cc
16	nah	nah	INTJ	_	14 true	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	nan			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	future	I	a cold		tree rules
3	go out	gerund	a cold not said here		with wet hair	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with hair=Co-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.

The options

Option 1

Yeah, but only in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 winter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 winter	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 winter	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 winter	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, colds come from viruses spread by people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 viruses	case
6	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
7	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 viruses	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	colds			viruses			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from virus=Initial_Location
2	spread	participle		viruses not said here				by people	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by people=Location

Option 3

Nah, colds come from cats and dogs mostly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 cats	case
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dogs	cc
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cats	conj
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	colds					from cats and dogs; mostly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cat=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, wet hair makes the viruses grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 wet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 viruses	det
7	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grow	nsubj
8	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	wet hair						tree rules
2	grow	present	the viruses						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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