Test 12 · ★★★ · Colds and flu

If all colds come from viruses, why can't doctors just make one cold vaccine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colds, doctors · What happens: come, not make · To what, where: viruses, one cold vaccine

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 come	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 colds	det
3	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 make	advcl
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 viruses	case
6	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 make	advmod
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 make	advmod
11	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 make	advmod
13	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 vaccine	nummod
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 vaccine	amod
16	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen	present	all colds			viruses			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from virus=Initial_Location
2	not make	can	doctors	one cold vaccine					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vaccine=Product

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

They already did and it is kept secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
2	already	already	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kept	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kept	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	aux:pass
7	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	conj
8	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	They						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	present · passive		it				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Colds are not real illnesses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 illnesses	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 illnesses	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 illnesses	advmod
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 illnesses	amod
5	illnesses	illness	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Colds	real illnesses					tree rules

Option 3

Vaccines don't work inside noses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 work	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 work	advmod
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	6 noses	case
6	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	present · do-support	Vaccines			noses			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

There are more than 200 different cold viruses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	5 200	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	3 more	fixed
5	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 viruses	nummod
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 viruses	amod
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 viruses	amod
8	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	200 different cold viruses			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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