Test 9 · Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends

What would happen if only one person in a family with threadworms were treated?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, treat · To what, where: one person

This is test 9 of lesson 11 «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» 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	_	14 treated	mark
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 person	nummod
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 treated	nsubj:pass
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 family	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 family	det
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 person	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 threadworms	case
12	threadworms	threadworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 family	nmod
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 treated	aux:pass
14	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
15	?	?	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	treat a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		one person in a family with threadworms					vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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

All the worms in the house would vanish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 worms	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 worms	det
3	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 vanish	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worms	nmod
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 vanish	aux
8	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	all worms in the house						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nobody else could catch them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 catch	nsubj
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 Nobody	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	could	Nobody	them = they					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

The pet would get them all instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pet	det
2	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the pet	them = they				instead property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The others could keep passing the eggs back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eggs	det
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	4 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	could	the others	the eggs					tree rules
2	pass	gerund	the eggs not said here						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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