Test 4 · Kindness to the dying and visiting the old

What would happen if nobody checked on an old neighbour who'd had a fall?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: happen, check, have · To what, where: old neighbour, fall

This is test 4 of lesson 77 «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» 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	_	13 had	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 had	nsubj
6	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 nobody	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 neighbour	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 neighbour	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 neighbour	amod
10	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 checked	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	nsubj
12	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	aux
13	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fall	det
15	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	check	participle			a old neighbour	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on neighbour=Location
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	nobody	a fall		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=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

Nothing; falls are never serious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 falls	compound
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 serious	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 serious	cop
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 serious	advmod
6	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Nothing falls					serious property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She might lie hurt for days without help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hurt	nsubj:pass
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux
3	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hurt	aux:pass
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurt	obl
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 help	case
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	might · passive		She			day	without help	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

She would always get up on her own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 get	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	would	She			her own		always property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on own=Source

Option 4

Someone would ring her eventually anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 ring	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ring	aux
3	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ring	obj
5	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	3 ring	advmod
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	3 ring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	would	Someone	her = she				anyway, eventually property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme

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