Test 8 · The optician and glasses

What would happen to a lazy eye left untreated in early childhood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, leave · To what, where: lazy eye, early childhood

This is test 8 of lesson 27 «The optician and glasses» 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	to	to	ADP	_	7 eye	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 eye	det
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eye	amod
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 eye	acl
9	untreated	untreated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 left	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 childhood	case
11	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 childhood	amod
12	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a lazy eye	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	participle		a lazy eye not said here				in early childhood result; untreated property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in childhood=Result

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

It slowly becomes the stronger, good eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 becomes	nsubj
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 becomes	advmod
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eye	det
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 eye	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stronger	punct
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eye	amod
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It	the stronger good eye				slowly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It fixes itself always

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fixes	nsubj
2	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 fixes	obj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 fixes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	present	It	itself = it				always property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Its sight could stay weak for life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sight	nmod:poss
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stay	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 life	case
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	could	Its sight					for life; weak property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sight		Its = it						nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

It turns blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turns	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It					blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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