Test 10 · ★ · Germs, hygiene and vaccines

why bother with soap, water washes germs off anyway innit

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, water · What happens: bother, wash off · To what, where: germs

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 37 «Germs, hygiene and vaccines» of the world 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	2 bother	advmod
2	bother	bother	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 soap	case
4	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bother	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 washes	punct
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 washes	nsubj
7	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bother	parataxis
8	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 washes	obj
9	off	off	ADV	_	7 washes	advmod
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	2 bother	advmod
11	innit	innit	PROPN	_	2 bother	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bother	imperative	you not said here					with soap; anyway property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	wash off	present	water	germs				off property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=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.

The options

Option 1

Soap just makes the hands smell nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 makes	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hands	det
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smell	nsubj
6	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	xcomp
7	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Soap					nice property	tree rules
2	smell	present	the hands						vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Soap breaks the oily layer holding germs, so water can wash them away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breaks	nsubj
2	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 layer	det
4	oily	oily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 layer	amod
5	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breaks	obj
6	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 layer	acl
7	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 holding	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wash	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 wash	advmod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wash	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 wash	aux
12	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 breaks	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wash	obj
14	away	away	ADV	_	12 wash	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break	present	Soap	the oily layer		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer layer=Patient
2	hold	gerund	the oily layer not said here	germs		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
3	wash away	can	water	germs = germ	away property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Soap kills germs only when the water is very hot, otherwise it does nothing

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kills	nsubj
2	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kills	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	10 hot	advmod
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 hot	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hot	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hot	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 hot	advmod
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kills	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 does	punct
12	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	14 does	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 does	nsubj
14	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kills	parataxis
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 does	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	present	Soap	germs		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	is	present	the water		hot property	tree rules
3	do	present	water	nothing	otherwise property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 4

Water alone removes all germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 removes	nsubj
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Water	advmod
3	removes	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 germs	det
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 removes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	present	Water	all germs					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

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