Test 6 · The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines

What would happen if almost everyone in a town was vaccinated against a disease?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, vaccinate · To what, where: everyone

This is test 6 of lesson 258 «The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines» of the biology 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 vaccinated	mark
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 everyone	advmod
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 vaccinated	nsubj:pass
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 town	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 everyone	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 vaccinated	aux:pass
11	vaccinated	vaccinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
12	against	against	ADP	_	14 disease	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 disease	det
14	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vaccinated	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	vaccinate a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		everyone				against a disease	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

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The germ would grow stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 germ	det
2	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the germ					strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

The germ would find it very hard to spread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 germ	det
2	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 find	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 spread	mark
9	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	the germ	it				hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	spread	to-infinitive							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Everyone would catch the disease at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 catch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 disease	det
5	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	Everyone	the disease					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent disease=Theme at once=Asset

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