Test 9 · ★★★ · Colds and flu

Why do people catch more colds after the summer holidays end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: catch · To what, where: more colds

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 catch	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 catch	nsubj
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 colds	amod
6	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 catch	obj
7	after	after	ADP	_	11 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holidays	compound
10	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 end	compound
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 catch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present · do-support	people	more colds			after the holidays end		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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The colder weather makes new viruses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 weather	det
2	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 weather	amod
3	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 viruses	amod
6	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the colder weather	new viruses					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset virus=Product

Option 2

Shorter days shrink the immune system

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 days	amod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shrink	nsubj
3	shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 system	det
5	immune	immune	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 system	compound
6	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shrink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	present	Shorter days	the immune system					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent system=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Children mix closely indoors again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mix	nsubj
2	mix	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	closely	closely	ADV	_	2 mix	advmod
4	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	2 mix	advmod
5	again	again	ADV	_	2 mix	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	present	Children				again	closely, indoors property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

School food gives colds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	School	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 food	compound
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	School food	colds					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=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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