Test 5 · ★★ · Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E

What would happen if lots of people went to A&E for small splinters?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lots · What happens: happen, go · To what, where: E

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Emergencies: ambulance, 999 and A&E» 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	_	8 went	mark
5	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lots	nmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 E	case
10	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 E	det
11	&	&	CCONJ	_	12 E	cc
12	E	E	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 splinters	case
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 splinters	amod
15	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	obl
16	?	?	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	go a condition, not said to happen	past	lots of people			a E		for small splinters	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to e=Initial_Location

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

A&E would close for the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 E	det
2	&	&	CCONJ	_	3 E	cc
3	E	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 close	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 close	aux
5	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	would	a E				day		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Seriously ill patients would wait longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seriously	seriously	ADV	_	2 ill	advmod
2	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 patients	amod
3	patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wait	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wait	aux
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 wait	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	would	ill patients					long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Splinters would be treated faster than heart attacks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 treated	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 treated	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 treated	aux:pass
4	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 treated	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 attacks	case
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 attacks	compound
8	attacks	attack	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	would · passive		Splinters				fast property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 4

Nothing changes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

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