Test 6 · ★ · COVID and staying home

What would happen if a brand-new virus appeared and nobody had immunity?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new virus, nobody · What happens: happen, appear, have · To what, where: immunity

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 12 «COVID and staying home» 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	_	10 appeared	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 virus	det
6	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 new	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 brand	punct
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 virus	amod
9	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 appeared	nsubj
10	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 appeared	conj
14	immunity	immunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	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	appear a condition, not said to happen	past	a new virus		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	nobody	immunity	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent immunity=Patient

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 right answer

It could spread across the world as a pandemic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spread	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
3	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 pandemic	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pandemic	det
9	pandemic	pandemic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	could	It			the world		as a pandemic	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across world=Destination

Option 2

Nothing, bodies already know all viruses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 bodies	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	nsubj
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 viruses	det
7	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Nothing bodies	all viruses					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer virus=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would stay in one house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 house	nummod
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It			one house			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

Option 4

It would vanish at once by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 vanish	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 vanish	aux
3	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 vanish	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 vanish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	It					by itself = it	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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