Test 10 · ★ · The cast: itching, signing and the saw

What would happen if a cast could be taken off every day like a boot for any break?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, take off · To what, where: cast

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2 «The cast: itching, signing and the saw» 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	_	9 taken	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cast	det
6	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	nsubj:pass
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 taken	aux:pass
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 taken	compound:prt
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obl:unmarked
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 boot	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boot	det
15	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 break	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 break	det
18	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boot	nmod
19	?	?	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 off a condition, not said to happen	could · passive		a cast			day	like a boot for any break	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 right answer

Unstable bones might slip out of place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unstable	unstable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bones	amod
2	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slip	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slip	aux
4	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 place	case
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip out	might	Unstable bones	place					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent place=Patient

Option 2

The arm would never itch, so it would be better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 arm	det
2	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 itch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 itch	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 itch	advmod
5	itch	itch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 better	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 better	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 better	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 better	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 better	cop
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 itch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not itch	would	the arm						vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	would	arm					good property	tree rules

Option 3

Nothing at all would change for the bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 bone	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bone	det
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing					for the bone	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The bone would heal much faster than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bone	det
2	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heal	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 heal	aux
4	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 faster	advmod
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 heal	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 before	case
8	before	before	ADV	_	6 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	would	the bone					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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