Test 3 · ★★ · Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad

What would happen if everyone stopped washing their hands before meals?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: happen, stop, wash · To what, where: hands

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 63 «Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad» 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	_	6 stopped	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	washing	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stopped	xcomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 washing	obj
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 meals	case
11	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 washing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	everyone			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	wash	gerund	everyone not said here	their hands	before meals	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Food would taste better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taste	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 taste	aux
3	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 taste	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	would	Food					well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Nothing, germs cannot live on hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 germs	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 live	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 live	advmod
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 hands	case
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	can	Nothing germs			hands			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Location

Option 3

Everyone would become immune at once and never get ill again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	immune	immune	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 immune	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 get	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 get	advmod
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 become	conj
10	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	xcomp
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Everyone					immune property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	not get	infinitive	Everyone not said here				again	ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

More germs would spread and more people would get ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 germs	amod
2	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spread	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux
4	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 get	cc
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 get	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 spread	conj
10	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	would	More germs						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	would	more people					ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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