Test 2 · ★★★ · Colds and flu
Sam's snot's green so his mum wants antibiotics. What would a GP most likely say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, GP · What happens: want, say · To what, where: antibiotics · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: Sam's snot's green so his mum wants antibiotics.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 snot | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sam | case |
| 3 | snot | snot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 green | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 snot | case |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 wants | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mum | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wants | nsubj |
| 9 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 green | advcl |
| 10 | antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wants | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 green | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Sam's mum | antibiotics | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot antibiotic=Theme |
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 would a GP most likely say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 say | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 GP | det |
| 4 | GP | gp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 likely | advmod |
| 6 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 7 say | advmod |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | a GP | likely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Green snot needs a small operation
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 snot | amod |
| 2 | snot | snot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 operation | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 operation | amod |
| 6 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Green snot | a small operation | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot operation=Theme |
Option 2
Take your sister's leftover pills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pills | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 sister | case |
| 5 | leftover | leftover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pills | compound |
| 6 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | your sister's leftover pills | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Theme |
Option 3
Take antibiotics straight away, before it spreads
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 away | advmod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spreads | punct |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 spreads | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spreads | nsubj |
| 8 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | antibiotics | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antibiotic=Theme | |||
| 2 | spread | present | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Wait it out; most green snot needs no antibiotics
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Wait | obj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Wait | compound:prt |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 needs | punct |
| 5 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 snot | amod |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 snot | amod |
| 7 | snot | snot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 needs | nsubj |
| 8 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 antibiotics | det |
| 10 | antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 needs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait out | imperative | you not said here | it | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | most green snot | no antibiotics | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot antibiotic=Theme |
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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