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Test 6 · ★ · Germs, hygiene and vaccines

A doctor in the 1840s told other doctors to wash their hands. What happened?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: doctor · What happens: tell, wash, happen · To what, where: other doctors, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A doctor in the 1840s told other doctors to wash their hands.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 doctor	det
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 1840s	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 1840s	det
5	1840s	1840	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	2 doctor	nmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 doctors	amod
8	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	iobj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 wash	mark
10	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wash	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a doctor in the 1840s		other doctors				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wash not said to happen	to-infinitive	a doctor in the 1840s not said here	their hands					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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: What happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

The hospital ran out of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hospital	det
2	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the hospital			water			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out water=Trajectory

Option 2

Nothing changed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	participle							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fewer mothers in his hospital died of infection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 mothers	amod
2	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hospital	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hospital	nmod:poss
5	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mothers	nmod
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 infection	case
8	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	Fewer mothers in his hospital					of infection	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of infection=Causer

Option 4

More people caught colds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	participle	More people	colds					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme

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