Test 5 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears

What would probably happen if a child pulled off a hangnail?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, pull off · To what, where: child

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 77 «Hair, nails and ears» of the everyday 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	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 pulled	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	nsubj:pass
8	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happen	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 pulled	compound:prt
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hangnail	det
11	hangnail	hangnail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull off a condition, not said to happen	participle · passive		a child					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

The finger would heal quicker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 finger	det
2	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heal	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 heal	aux
4	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	quicker	quick	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 heal	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The skin could tear and get infected

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skin	det
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tear	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tear	aux
4	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 get	cc
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tear	conj
7	infected	infect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	tear	could	the skin	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	infinitive	the skin not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	infect	participle	the skin not said here	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, it is the best method

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 method	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 method	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 method	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 method	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 method	amod
7	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing	the best method					tree rules

Option 4

The nail would grow back faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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