Test 5 · Needles and brave faces

What would happen if a nurse just jabbed a scared kid with no warning or explanation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nurse · What happens: happen, jab · To what, where: scared kid

This is test 5 of lesson 32 «Needles and brave faces» 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 jabbed	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jabbed	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 jabbed	advmod
8	jabbed	jab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kid	det
10	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kid	amod
11	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jabbed	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 warning	case
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 warning	det
14	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kid	nmod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 explanation	cc
16	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 warning	conj
17	?	?	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	jab a condition, not said to happen	past	a nurse	a scared kid				with no warning or explanation	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent kid=Patient with warning=Instrument

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

The child would likely be more scared next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 time	aux
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	7 scared	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 scared	cop
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 scared	advmod
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						likely, scared property	tree rules

Option 2

The jab would hurt a lot less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jab	det
2	jab	jab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurt	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurt	obl
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 hurt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	would	the jab	a lot				less property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nothing different

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The child would never be scared of needles ever again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 scared	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 scared	cop
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 needles	case
8	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scared	obl
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 again	advmod
10	again	again	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	would	the child				again	of needles; scared property	tree rules

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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