Test 4 · Sore throats, ears and eyes

What would happen if you poked a cotton bud deep into your ear every day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, poke · To what, where: cotton bud

This is test 4 of lesson 9 «Sore throats, ears and eyes» 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 poked	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 poked	nsubj
6	poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bud	det
8	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bud	compound
9	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poked	obj
10	deep	deep	ADV	_	13 ear	advmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 ear	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ear	nmod:poss
13	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poked	obl
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poked	obl:unmarked
16	?	?	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	poke a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a cotton bud			day	into your ear	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent bud=Instrument into ear=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 right answer

Wax could be pushed deeper and block the ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wax	Wax	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pushed	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pushed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 pushed	aux:pass
4	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 pushed	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 block	cc
7	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pushed	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ear	det
9	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 block	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	could · passive		Wax				deep property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	block	infinitive		the ear					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ear=Theme

Option 2

You would hear better and better each day, like a bat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 hear	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 better	cc
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 better	conj
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bat	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 bat	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bat	det
12	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	You				day	well property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

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

Option 4

Your ears would stay perfectly clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ears	nmod:poss
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	Your ears					clean, perfectly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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