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Test 3 · ★★★ · Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics

A child has a mild fever with a cold. Why do some doctors say a small fever is not always bad?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: child, doctors, small fever · What happens: have, do, say, not be · To what, where: mild fever · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics» 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 child has a mild fever with a cold.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fever	det
5	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fever	amod
6	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 cold	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cold	det
9	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fever	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a child	a mild fever				with a cold	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=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: Why do some doctors say a small fever is not always bad?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	advcl
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 doctors	det
4	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fever	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fever	amod
8	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bad	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bad	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 bad	advmod
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 bad	advmod
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	some doctors not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	some doctors						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	a small fever					always, bad property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It makes the child grow faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the child					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	the child not said here					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It kills the germs by freezing them with cold sweat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kills	nsubj
2	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 germs	det
4	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kills	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 freezing	mark
6	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kills	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 freezing	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 sweat	case
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sweat	amod
10	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 freezing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	It	the germs					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	freeze	gerund		germs = germ				with cold sweat	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with sweat=Instrument

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

It is one of the body's ways of fighting the germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 one	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 ways	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ways	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 body	case
8	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 fighting	mark
10	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 ways	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 germs	det
12	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fighting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	one				of the body's ways	tree rules
2	fight	gerund	the body's ways not said here	the germs					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent

Option 4

It means the illness is already gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 illness	det
4	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	cop
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 gone	advmod
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp

#	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	is	present	the illness					go property	tree rules

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