Test 10 · ★★★ · A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions

What would happen if a type 1 diabetic body got no insulin at all?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: type · What happens: happen, get · To what, where: insulin, all

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 16 «A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions» 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 got	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 type	det
6	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	nsubj
7	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 type	flat
8	diabetic	diabetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 body	amod
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 type	conj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 insulin	det
12	insulin	insulin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 got	obl
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	get a condition, not said to happen	past	a type and diabetic body	no insulin		all			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent insulin=Theme at all=Asset

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

He'd simply turn into a type 2 diabetic instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turn	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	simply	simply	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 type	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 type	det
7	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl
8	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 diabetic	nummod
9	diabetic	diabetic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obj
10	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	He	2 diabetic		a type		instead, simply property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent diabetic=Theme into type=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sugar couldn't get into the cells for energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 cells	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cells	det
7	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 energy	case
9	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	could	Sugar			the cells		for energy	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into cell=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, insulin isn't really needed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 insulin	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	insulin	insulin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needed	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 needed	aux:pass
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 needed	advmod
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 needed	advmod
7	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · passive		Nothing insulin					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

Option 4

He'd become stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	He					strong property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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