Test 6 · The human body deeper: the brain and nerves

What would happen if a message from a hot pan had to go all the way to the brain first?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: message · What happens: happen, have, go · To what, where: way, brain

This is test 6 of lesson 260 «The human body deeper: the brain and nerves» 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 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 message	det
6	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 pan	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pan	det
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pan	amod
10	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 message	nmod
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 way	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl:unmarked
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 brain	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 brain	det
19	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 go	advmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a message from a hot pan				tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	a message from a hot pan not said here	all way	the brain	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brain=Initial_Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

You would pull your hand away a little later and might get a worse burn

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pull	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pull	aux
3	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pull	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 pull	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 later	obl:unmarked
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 pull	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 get	cc
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pull	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 burn	det
14	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 burn	amod
15	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull away	would	You	your hand				away, late property	tree rules
2	get	might	You not said here	a worse burn					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer burn=Stimulus

Option 2

The pan would cool down faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pan	det
2	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cool	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cool	aux
4	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 cool	compound:prt
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 cool	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool down	would	the pan					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

You would pull away much sooner, because the brain is far quicker than the spinal cord

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pull	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pull	aux
3	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 pull	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 sooner	advmod
6	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 pull	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 quicker	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 quicker	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brain	det
10	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 quicker	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 quicker	cop
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 quicker	advmod
13	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 pull	parataxis
14	than	than	ADP	_	17 cord	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cord	det
16	spinal	spinal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cord	amod
17	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 quicker	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull away	would	You					away, soon property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the brain					than the spinal cord; far, quick property	tree rules

Option 4

You would never feel anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 feel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	would	You	anything					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

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