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Test 5 · ★★★ · Colds and flu

Aunt says she never catches colds because of her vitamin C pills. What's wrong with her thinking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aunt · What happens: say, not catch, be, think · To what, where: colds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: Aunt says she never catches colds because of her vitamin C pills.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 catches	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 catches	advmod
5	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catches	obj
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	12 pills	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 because	fixed
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pills	nmod:poss
10	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 C	compound
11	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pills	compound
12	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catches	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Aunt						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not catch	present	Aunt	colds				because Aunt's C pills	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=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's wrong with her thinking?

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	with	with	ADP	_	6 thinking	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 thinking	nmod:poss
6	thinking	thinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with Aunt's thinking; wrong property	tree rules
2	think		Aunt						nom thinking «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Vitamin C actually causes colds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 C	compound
2	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 causes	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 causes	advmod
4	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 causes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Vitamin C	colds				actually property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cold=Patient

Option 2

She must have the flu instead and just doesn't know it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flu	det
5	flu	flu	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 have	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 know	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 know	advmod
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 know	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 know	advmod
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	must	She	the flu				instead property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flu=Patient
2	not know	present · do-support	She not said here	flu					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

Nothing, she is right, it has been proven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 right	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 right	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 proven	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 proven	nsubj:pass
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 proven	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 proven	aux:pass
10	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					right property	tree rules
2	prove	present · perfect · passive		it					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Research shows vitamin C doesn't prevent most colds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Research	research	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 C	compound
4	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prevent	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 prevent	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 prevent	advmod
7	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shows	ccomp
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 colds	amod
9	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 prevent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Research						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not prevent	present · do-support	vitamin C	most colds					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer cold=Theme

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