Test 4 · Lungs and breathing

What would happen if your nose had no hairs or mucus?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: nose · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: hairs

This is test 4 of lesson 66 «Lungs and breathing» 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	_	7 had	mark
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nose	nmod:poss
6	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 hairs	det
9	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 mucus	cc
11	mucus	mucus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hairs	conj
12	?	?	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	have a condition, not said to happen	past	your nose	no hairs or mucus					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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

You would sneeze every single second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sneeze	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sneeze	aux
3	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 second	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 second	amod
6	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sneeze	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze	would	You				second		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nothing at all would change for you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 change	obl

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

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

More dust and germs would reach your lungs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 dust	amod
2	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reach	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 germs	cc
4	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dust	conj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 reach	aux
6	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lungs	nmod:poss
8	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	would	More dust and germs	your lungs					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lung=Theme

Option 4

You could smell everything much better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 smell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	aux
3	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 smell	obj
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 better	advmod
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 smell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	could	You	everything				good property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

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