Test 5 · ★ · Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things

Why do we wash our hands even though most bacteria are harmless?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: we, most bacteria · What happens: wash, be · To what, where: hands

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 77 «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» 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	4 wash	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wash	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wash	nsubj
4	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wash	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	12 harmless	advmod
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 harmless	mark
9	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 bacteria	amod
10	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 harmless	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 harmless	cop
12	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wash	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wash	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present · do-support	we	our hands					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	is	present	most bacteria					harmless 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

Bacteria make our hands heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Bacteria	our hands				heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hand=Product

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

A few bacteria can make us ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bacteria	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bacteria	amod
3	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	a few bacteria	us				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product

Option 3

Washing feeds the good bacteria

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feeds	nsubj
2	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bacteria	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bacteria	amod
5	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feeds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	Washing	the good bacteria					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacteria=Recipient

Option 4

All bacteria are dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 bacteria	det
2	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dangerous	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all bacteria					dangerous property	tree rules

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