Test 4 · ★ · Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill

What would happen if Sam came back to class and everyone with a cold sat next to him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sam, everyone · What happens: happen, come back, sit · To what, where: Sam

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 59 «Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill» of the religion ethics 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 came	mark
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 class	case
9	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 sat	nsubj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 cold	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cold	det
14	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 everyone	nmod
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
16	next	next	ADV	_	15 sat	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sat	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back a condition, not said to happen	past	Sam			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past	everyone	Sam	next property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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; colds can't hurt anyone, because they are only sniffles and sneezes

The tree, 15 words

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
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 hurt	punct
5	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hurt	nsubj
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hurt	advmod
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 hurt	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sniffles	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 sniffles	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sniffles	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sniffles	cop
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 sniffles	advmod
15	sniffles	sniffle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hurt	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sneezes	cc
17	sneezes	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sniffles	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	can	colds	anyone					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient
2	is a	present	colds = cold	sniffles and sneezes					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He might catch an infection, because his body finds germs hard to fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 catch	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 infection	det
5	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 finds	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 finds	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 body	nmod:poss
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 finds	nsubj
10	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	advcl
11	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 finds	obj
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 finds	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fight	mark
14	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	might	He	a infection		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Theme
2	find	present	his body	germs	hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Topic
3	fight	to-infinitive	germs not said here			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Sam's hair would all grow back at once, from the germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hair	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sam	case
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grow	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 grow	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 grow	advmod
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 grow	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 grow	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 germs	punct
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 germs	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 germs	det
13	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	would	Sam's hair			the germs		all property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 4

Everyone in the class would catch leukaemia from him in a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 catch	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 class	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 class	det
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Everyone	nmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 catch	aux
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	leukaemia	leukaemia	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 catch	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	Everyone	leukaemia			day	from him = he	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent leukaemia=Theme from he=Source

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