Test 4 · ★ · Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood

What would happen if many more people agreed to donate?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: many more people · What happens: happen, agree, donate

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 78 «Gifts of life: organ donation and giving blood» 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	_	8 agreed	mark
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 agreed	nsubj
8	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 donate	mark
10	donate	donate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 agreed	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	happen	would		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen	past	many more people	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	donate not said to happen	to-infinitive	many more people not said here	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «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; donors never really help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 donors	punct
3	donors	donor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 help	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 help	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 help	advmod
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	infinitive	donors						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Hospitals would close because nobody is sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 close	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 close	aux
3	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 sick	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 sick	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sick	cop
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 close	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	would	Hospitals						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	nobody					sick property	tree rules

Option 3

Organs would stop matching anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Organs	organ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	matching	match	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 matching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Organs						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	match	gerund	Organs not said here	anyone					vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fewer people would die waiting for organs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 die	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 die	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 organs	case
7	organs	organ	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	Fewer people						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	wait	gerund	Fewer people not said here					for organs	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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