Test 7 · ★★ · Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters
What would happen if a deep dirty wound were never cleaned?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, not clean · To what, where: deep dirty wound
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 4 «Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters» 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 | _ | 11 cleaned | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wound | det |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wound | amod |
| 7 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wound | amod |
| 8 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cleaned | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cleaned | aux:pass |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 cleaned | advmod |
| 11 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happen | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | 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 | not clean a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | a deep dirty wound | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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
The dirt would slowly turn into new skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dirt | det |
| 2 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | aux |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 5 turn | advmod |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 skin | case |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 skin | amod |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | would | the dirt | new skin | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into skin=Trajectory |
Option 2
It would heal faster than a clean one
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 heal | nsubj |
| 2 | would | 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 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heal | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heal | would | It | than a clean one; fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Germs could cause an infection
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cause | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 cause | aux |
| 3 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 infection | det |
| 5 | infection | infection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cause | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | could | Germs | a infection | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition infection=Patient |
Option 4
Nothing, a bit of dirt is good for wounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 good | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 good | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dirt | case |
| 6 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bit | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 good | cop |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 wounds | case |
| 10 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 good | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | for wounds; good 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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