Test 6 · Sore throats, ears and eyes

White spots on my tonsils, so it's bacteria for sure?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be · To what, where: bacteria

This is test 6 of lesson 9 «Sore throats, ears and eyes» 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	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spots	amod
2	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 tonsils	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tonsils	nmod:poss
5	tonsils	tonsil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spots	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bacteria	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 bacteria	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bacteria	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bacteria	cop
10	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spots	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 sure	case
12	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bacteria	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 spots	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	bacteria				for sure	tree rules

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

Yes, white spots always mean bacteria, no doubt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 white	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spots	amod
4	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mean	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 mean	advmod
6	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mean	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 doubt	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 doubt	det
10	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	white spots	bacteria				no doubt obl; always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacterium=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Not for sure; viruses can cause them too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 sure	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 sure	case
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 cause	punct
5	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cause	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cause	aux
7	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	parataxis
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cause	obj
9	too	too	ADV	_	7 cause	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	can	viruses	them = they					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition they=Patient

Option 3

No, it just means you had milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 means	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 means	advmod
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 means	ccomp
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	you	milk					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient

Option 4

Yes, and you'll need an operation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 need	cc
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 need	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 operation	det
8	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	future	you	a operation					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot operation=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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