Test 3 · ★ · Germs, the immune system and hand-washing

What would happen if doctors stopped washing their hands between patients?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doctors · What happens: happen, stop, wash · To what, where: hands

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 30 «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» 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 stopped	mark
5	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	washing	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stopped	xcomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 washing	obj
10	between	between	ADP	_	11 patients	case
11	patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 washing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	doctors			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	wash	gerund	doctors not said here	doctors's hands	between patients	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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, germs don't live on clean-looking hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 germs	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 live	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 live	advmod
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 hands	case
8	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 looking	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 clean	punct
10	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 hands	amod
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	present · do-support	Nothing germs			looking hands			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Location
2	look	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Patients would get better faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Patients					fast, good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Only the doctors themselves would get ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 doctors	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doctors	det
3	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	3 doctors	nmod:unmarked
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the doctors doctors					ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Germs would spread from patient to patient

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
3	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 patient	case
5	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 patient	case
7	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	would	Germs			patient		to patient	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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