Test 4 · ★★★ · Colds and flu

What would happen if healthy kids never had the flu spray?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: healthy kids · What happens: happen, not have · To what, where: flu spray

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 7 «Colds and flu» 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 had	mark
5	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kids	amod
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 had	advmod
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spray	det
10	flu	flu	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spray	compound
11	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
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 have a condition, not said to happen	past	healthy kids	the flu spray					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spray=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

Nobody would ever get flu again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	flu	flu	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Nobody	flu			ever; again		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flu=Stimulus

Option 2

Colds would disappear from schools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 disappear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 disappear	aux
3	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 schools	case
5	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 disappear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	would	Colds			schools			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from school=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Flu could spread more easily to babies and grandparents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flu	flu	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
3	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 easily	advmod
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 spread	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 babies	case
7	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grandparents	cc
9	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 babies	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	could	Flu					to babies and grandparents; easily property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Children would become immune to all illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	immune	immune	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 illness	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 illness	det
7	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 immune	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Children					immune property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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