Test 5 · ★★ · Tummy bugs and tummy aches

What would happen if the cook didn't wash her hands before making sandwiches?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cook · What happens: happen, not wash, make · To what, where: hands, sandwiches

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Tummy bugs and tummy aches» of the medicine 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	_	9 wash	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wash	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wash	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 wash	advmod
9	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wash	obj
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 making	mark
13	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 wash	advcl
14	sandwiches	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 making	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not wash a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	the cook	cook's hands	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	make	gerund	the cook not said here	sandwiches	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sandwich=Product

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

The sandwiches would taste better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sandwiches	det
2	sandwiches	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taste	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 taste	aux
4	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 taste	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Germs could spread into the food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
3	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 food	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 food	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	could	Germs			the food			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into food=Destination

Option 3

The bread would go stale much faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bread	det
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	stale	stale	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 faster	advmod
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	the bread					fast, stale property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing at all would happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 happen	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would	Nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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