Test 1 · ★ · Colds, coughs and the weather Your mate goes to the South Pole station where nobody has a cold for months. A scientist arrives with a cold. What would happen?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, nobody, scientist · What happens: go, have, arrive, happen · To what, where: Pole station, cold
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 4 «Colds, coughs and the weather» of the myths 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: Your mate goes to the South Pole station where nobody has a cold for months.
nmod:poss nsubj case det compound compound obl advmod nsubj acl:relcl det obj case nmod punct root Your PRON mate NOUN goes VERB to ADP the DET South PROPN Pole PROPN station NOUN where ADV nobody PRON has VERB a DET cold NOUN for ADP months NOUN . PUNCT The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 Your your PRON Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs 2 mate nmod:poss 2 mate mate NOUN Number=Sing 3 goes nsubj 3 goes go VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin root root 4 to to ADP _ 8 station case 5 the the DET Definite=Def PronType=Art 8 station det 6 South South PROPN Number=Sing 7 Pole compound 7 Pole Pole PROPN Number=Sing 8 station compound 8 station station NOUN Number=Sing 3 goes obl 9 where where ADV PronType=Rel 11 has advmod 10 nobody nobody PRON Number=Sing PronType=Neg 11 has nsubj 11 has have VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin 8 station acl:relcl 12 a a DET Definite=Ind PronType=Art 13 cold det 13 cold cold NOUN Number=Sing 11 has obj 14 for for ADP _ 15 months case 15 months month NOUN Number=Plur 13 cold nmod 16 . . PUNCT _ 3 goes punct
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 go present Your mate the Pole station vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to station=Initial_Location 2 have present nobody a cold for months vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient
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: A scientist arrives with a cold.
det nsubj case det obl punct root A DET scientist NOUN arrives VERB with ADP a DET cold NOUN . PUNCT The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 A a DET Definite=Ind PronType=Art 2 scientist det 2 scientist scientist NOUN Number=Sing 3 arrives nsubj 3 arrives arrive VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin root root 4 with with ADP _ 6 cold case 5 a a DET Definite=Ind PronType=Art 6 cold det 6 cold cold NOUN Number=Sing 3 arrives obl 7 . . PUNCT _ 3 arrives punct
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 arrive present a scientist with a cold vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
Sentence 3: What would happen?
nsubj aux punct root What PRON would AUX happen VERB ? PUNCT The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 What what PRON PronType=Int 3 happen nsubj 2 would would AUX VerbForm=Fin 3 happen aux 3 happen happen VERB VerbForm=Inf root root 4 ? ? PUNCT _ 3 happen punct
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 happen would vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
The options Option 1 Nobody could ever catch a cold that cold
nsubj aux advmod det obj nsubj acl:relcl root Nobody PRON could AUX ever ADV catch VERB a DET cold NOUN that PRON cold ADJ The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 Nobody nobody PRON Number=Sing PronType=Neg 4 catch nsubj 2 could could AUX VerbForm=Fin 4 catch aux 3 ever ever ADV PronType=Ind 4 catch advmod 4 catch catch VERB VerbForm=Inf root root 5 a a DET Definite=Ind PronType=Art 6 cold det 6 cold cold NOUN Number=Sing 4 catch obj 7 that that PRON PronType=Rel 8 cold nsubj 8 cold cold ADJ Degree=Pos 6 cold acl:relcl
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 catch could Nobody a cold ever vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer People might start catching colds, because the virus has arrived
nsubj aux xcomp obj punct mark det nsubj aux parataxis root People NOUN might AUX start VERB catching VERB colds NOUN , PUNCT because SCONJ the DET virus NOUN has AUX arrived VERB The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 People people NOUN Number=Plur 3 start nsubj 2 might might AUX VerbForm=Fin 3 start aux 3 start start VERB VerbForm=Inf root root 4 catching catch VERB VerbForm=Ger 3 start xcomp 5 colds cold NOUN Number=Plur 4 catching obj 6 , , PUNCT _ 11 arrived punct 7 because because SCONJ _ 11 arrived mark 8 the the DET Definite=Def PronType=Art 9 virus det 9 virus virus NOUN Number=Sing 11 arrived nsubj 10 has have AUX Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin 11 arrived aux 11 arrived arrive VERB Tense=Past VerbForm=Part 3 start parataxis
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 start might People vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality 2 catch gerund People not said here colds vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme 3 arrive present · perfect the virus vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
Option 3 The cold air would kill the virus at once
det amod nsubj aux det obj case obl root The DET cold ADJ air NOUN would AUX kill VERB the DET virus NOUN at ADP once ADV The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 The the DET Definite=Def PronType=Art 3 air det 2 cold cold ADJ Degree=Pos 3 air amod 3 air air NOUN Number=Sing 5 kill nsubj 4 would would AUX VerbForm=Fin 5 kill aux 5 kill kill VERB VerbForm=Inf root root 6 the the DET Definite=Def PronType=Art 7 virus det 7 virus virus NOUN Number=Sing 5 kill obj 8 at at ADP _ 9 once case 9 once once ADV NumForm=Word NumType=Mult 5 kill obl
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 kill would the cold air the virus vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virus=Theme
Option 4 Everyone already had colds from the freezing air
nsubj advmod obj case det compound obl root Everyone PRON already ADV had VERB colds NOUN from ADP the DET freezing NOUN air NOUN The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 Everyone everyone PRON Number=Sing PronType=Tot 3 had nsubj 2 already already ADV _ 3 had advmod 3 had have VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin root root 4 colds cold NOUN Number=Plur 3 had obj 5 from from ADP _ 8 air case 6 the the DET Definite=Def PronType=Art 8 air det 7 freezing freezing NOUN Number=Sing 8 air compound 8 air air NOUN Number=Sing 3 had obl
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 have past Everyone colds the freezing air vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient
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