Test 9 · ★★ · Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, ea…

What would happen if your tear drains were blocked?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: your · What happens: happen, block, drain · To what, where: tear drains

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 362 «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness» 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	_	9 blocked	mark
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 drains	nmod:poss
6	tear	tear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drains	compound
7	drains	drain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 blocked	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 blocked	aux:pass
9	blocked	block	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	block a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		your tear drains	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	drain		your		nom drain «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

You would never sneeze again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sneeze	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sneeze	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 sneeze	advmod
4	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 sneeze	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sneeze	would	You				again		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tears would spill down your cheeks even when you are not crying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spill	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spill	aux
3	spill	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 spill	compound:prt
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cheeks	nmod:poss
6	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spill	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	12 crying	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 crying	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 crying	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 crying	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 crying	advmod
12	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spill	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill down	would	Tears	your cheeks					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cheek=Theme
2	not cry speech: express	present · progressive	you						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Your eyes would become totally dry and sore, because no tears could be made

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 dry	advmod
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sore	cc
8	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dry	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 made	mark
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 tears	det
12	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 made	nsubj:pass
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 made	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 made	aux:pass
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 become	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Your eyes					dry property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	make	could · passive		no tears					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

You would see in black and white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 black	case
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 see	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 white	cc
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 black	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	You			black			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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