Test 3 · ★ · Antibiotics, viruses and side effects
What would happen if everyone took antibiotics for every cold?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: happen, take · To what, where: antibiotics
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 19 «Antibiotics, viruses and side effects» 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 took | mark |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 7 | antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 cold | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 cold | det |
| 10 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | 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 | take a condition, not said to happen | past | everyone | antibiotics | for every cold | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent antibiotic=Theme for cold=Beneficiary |
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
Nothing, because it does no harm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 does | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 does | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 does | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Nothing | appos |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 harm | det |
| 7 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 does | obj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Colds would disappear from the world
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colds | cold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 disappear | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 disappear | aux |
| 3 | disappear | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disappear | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | would | Colds | the world | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from world=Initial_Location |
Option 3
Viruses would turn into bacteria
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viruses | virus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | aux |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 bacteria | case |
| 5 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | would | Viruses | bacteria | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into bacteria=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
More bacteria would become resistant and antibiotics would fail more often
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 bacteria | amod |
| 2 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | resistant | resistant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 become | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fail | cc |
| 7 | antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fail | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fail | aux |
| 9 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 resistant | conj |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 often | advmod |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 fail | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | would | More bacteria | resistant property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fail | would | antibiotics | often property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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