Test 8 · ★ · Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent

What would happen if a scared child in hospital had nobody to explain things?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scared child · What happens: happen, have, explain · To what, where: nobody, things

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 33 «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» 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	_	10 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 hospital	case
9	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 child	nmod
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 explain	mark
13	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 nobody	acl
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 explain	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a scared child in hospital	nobody	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Patient
3	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	a scared child in hospital not said here	things	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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 changes, children don't need explaining to

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
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 need	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 need	advmod
7	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 changes	advcl
8	explaining	explain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 need	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	8 explaining	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	change	present	Nothing	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not need	present · do-support	children	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	explain speech: assert not said to happen	gerund	children not said here	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She'd feel braver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	She					brave property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She'd likely feel more frightened and alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 'd	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 'd	xcomp
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 'd	xcomp
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 frightened	advmod
6	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 alone	cc
8	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 frightened	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	infinitive						frightened property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

She'd heal faster and more quietly without all the chatter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heal	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 heal	aux
3	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 heal	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 quietly	cc
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 quietly	advmod
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 heal	conj
8	without	without	ADP	_	11 chatter	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 chatter	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chatter	det
11	chatter	chatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	would	She					without all chatter; fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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