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Test 5 · ★★ · Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years chang…

In 1847 Semmelweis told doctors to wash their hands and they laughed. What would happen without his idea winning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Semmelweis, hands · What happens: tell, wash, laugh, happen, win · To what, where: doctors, 1847, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 65 «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» of the history 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

Sentence 1: In 1847 Semmelweis told doctors to wash their hands and they laughed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 1847	case
2	1847	1847	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 told	obl
3	Semmelweis	Semmelweis	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wash	mark
7	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	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 wash	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 laughed	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laughed	nsubj
12	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Semmelweis		doctors	1847			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wash not said to happen	to-infinitive	Semmelweis not said here	doctors's hands					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	laugh	past	hands = hand						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What would happen without his idea winning?

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	without	without	ADP	_	6 idea	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 idea	nmod:poss
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						without Semmelweis's idea	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	win	gerund							vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Doctors would get cleaner anyway by magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	cleaner	clean	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	3 get	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 magic	case
7	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Doctors					by magic; anyway, clean property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Nothing, germs do not exist

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 exist	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 exist	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 exist	advmod
6	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not exist	present · do-support	Nothing germs						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Far more people would die from germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 die	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 germs	case
7	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	more people			germs			vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from germ=Causer

Option 4

Hospitals would close for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 close	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 close	aux
3	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 ever	case
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 close	obl

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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