Test 4 · ★ · Sleep and healthy eating

What would probably happen if a child ate a sandwich while running in the playground?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: happen, eat, run · To what, where: sandwich, playground

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 80 «Sleep and healthy eating» 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 ate	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	nsubj
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sandwich	det
10	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obj
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 running	mark
12	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ate	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 playground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 playground	det
15	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 running	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would				probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat a condition, not said to happen	past	a child	a sandwich			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandwich=Patient
3	run	gerund	a child not said here		the playground		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in playground=Trajectory

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

He would digest it faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 digest	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 digest	aux
3	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 digest	obj
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 digest	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	digest	would	He	it				fast property	tree rules

Option 2

Nothing, running helps swallowing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 helps	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 running	punct
3	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Nothing	conj
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	swallowing	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 helps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	run	gerund	Nothing not said here	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help	present	Nothing	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	swallow	gerund	Nothing not said here	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He could choke on a piece of food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 choke	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 choke	aux
3	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 piece	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 piece	det
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 choke	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piece	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choke	could	He			a piece of food			vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He would run faster after eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 run	advmod
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 eating	mark
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 run	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	He					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	gerund	He not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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