Test 7 · ★ · Fever
In a cartoon, a sick boy's thermometer shoots out the top and he's sent to school. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thermometer · What happens: shoot out, send, be · To what, where: top, cartoon, school
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 8 «Fever» 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: In a cartoon, a sick boy's thermometer shoots out the top and he's sent to school.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shoots | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boy | amod |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thermometer | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 boy | case |
| 9 | thermometer | thermometer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shoots | nsubj |
| 10 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 shoots | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 top | det |
| 13 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shoots | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sent | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sent | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sent | aux |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 shoots | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 school | case |
| 19 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shoots | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot out | present | a sick boy's thermometer | the top | a cartoon | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Destination | |||
| 2 | send | present · passive | thermometer | school | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to school=Destination |
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?
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 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Fevers mean you must run it off outside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fevers | fever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 run | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | aux |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 mean | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 run | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 run | compound:prt |
| 8 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Fevers | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | run off | must | you | it | outside property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A child with a fever should stay home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 fever | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fever | det |
| 5 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 child | nmod |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | aux |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 stay | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | should | a child with a fever | home property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nothing, fevers don't matter at all at school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | fevers | fever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 matter | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 matter | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 matter | advmod |
| 6 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 matter | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 school | case |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 matter | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present · do-support | Nothing | all | at school | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
Thermometers can't really go that high
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thermometers | thermometer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 go | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 high | mark |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 go | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | can | Thermometers | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/8-fever/t7/