Test 3 · ★ · Germs, hygiene and vaccines

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	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

A vaccine is made of white blood cells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 vaccine	det
2	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 cells	case
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cells	amod
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cells	compound
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		a vaccine				of white blood cells	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

A vaccine makes you ill so badly that you learn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 vaccine	det
2	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 badly	advmod
7	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 makes	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 learn	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 learn	nsubj
10	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a vaccine	you				badly, ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
2	learn	present	you						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A vaccine kills all helpful bacteria too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 vaccine	det
2	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kills	nsubj
3	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 helpful	advmod
5	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bacteria	amod
6	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kills	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	3 kills	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	a vaccine	helpful bacteria					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacterium=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A vaccine shows the body a harmless form of a germ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 vaccine	det
2	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 body	det
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 form	det
7	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 form	amod
8	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 germ	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 germ	det
11	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 form	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a vaccine	a harmless form of a germ	the body				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent body=Recipient form=Topic
2	form			a germ					nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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