Test 6 · ★ · Eczema and other skin troubles

What would happen if you stopped using emollients every day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, stop, use · To what, where: emollients

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 15 «Eczema and other skin troubles» 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	_	6 stopped	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stopped	xcomp
8	emollients	emollient	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 using	obj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 using	obl:unmarked
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	you			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	use	gerund	you not said here	emollients	day	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emollient=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 · ← Mova's choice

The skin would get far too oily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skin	det
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 get	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 oily	advmod
7	oily	oily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the skin					far, oily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Eczema skin could dry out and flare up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eczema	eczema	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skin	compound
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dry	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dry	aux
4	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 dry	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flare	cc
7	flare	flare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dry	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 flare	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry out	could	Eczema skin						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	flare up	infinitive	Eczema skin not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The eczema would be cured for good, as the skin learns to cope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eczema	det
2	eczema	eczema	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cured	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cured	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 cured	aux:pass
5	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 good	case
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cured	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 learns	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 learns	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 skin	det
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 learns	nsubj
12	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cured	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cope	mark
14	cope	cope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 learns	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cure	would · passive		the eczema	for good	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source
2	learn	present	the skin			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cope	to-infinitive	the skin not said here			vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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