Test 10 · Burns, sunburn and stings
What would happen if you put ice straight on a burn?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, put · To what, where: ice, burn
This is test 10 of lesson 6 «Burns, sunburn and stings» 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 put | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 put | nsubj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 burn | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 burn | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 burn | det |
| 11 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 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 | put a condition, not said to happen | present | you | ice | a burn | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ice=Theme on burn=Destination |
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
Nothing at all, ice is just very cold water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 ice | compound |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 5 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 water | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 water | cop |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 water | advmod |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 cold | advmod |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nothing ice | cold water | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It could damage the skin more
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 damage | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 damage | aux |
| 3 | damage | damage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skin | det |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 damage | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 damage | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | damage | could | It | the skin | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument skin=Patient |
Option 3
It would make the blister vanish
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 make | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blister | det |
| 5 | blister | blister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | would | It | the blister | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vanish | infinitive | the blister not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
It would heal the burn in a minute
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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 burn | det |
| 5 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heal | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 minute | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 minute | det |
| 8 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heal | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heal | would | It | the burn | minute | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent burn=Patient |
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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