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Test 6 · "It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure

Bill in Dublin: "Vinegar sorted my cold in a week, I'm grand now." What would most likely have happened without the vinegar?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bill, I · What happens: sort, be, happen · To what, where: cold

This is test 6 of lesson 179 «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» of the world 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

Sentence 1: Bill in Dublin: "Vinegar sorted my cold in a week, I'm grand now."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sorted	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Dublin	case
3	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bill	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 sorted	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sorted	punct
6	Vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sorted	nsubj
7	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cold	nmod:poss
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sorted	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 week	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 week	det
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sorted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grand	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 grand	nsubj
15	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 grand	cop
16	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sorted	conj
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 grand	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sorted	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sorted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort in a quote	past	Bill in Dublin	my cold			week		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	I				now	grand property	tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: What would most likely have happened without the vinegar?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 happened	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 happened	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 happened	aux
6	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	without	without	ADP	_	9 vinegar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vinegar	det
9	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happened	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect						without the vinegar; likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Bill would have needed to go to hospital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 needed	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 needed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 needed	aux
4	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 needed	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 hospital	case
8	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would · perfect	Bill						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Bill not said here			hospital			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hospital=Initial_Location

Option 2

The cold would have lasted all winter, maybe longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lasted	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lasted	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 lasted	aux
5	lasted	last	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 winter	det
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lasted	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 longer	punct
9	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	10 longer	advmod
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 lasted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	would · perfect · passive		the cold			winter	long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value

Option 3

Bill would have caught two more colds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 caught	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 caught	aux
4	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 colds	nummod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 colds	amod
7	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would · perfect · passive		Bill					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary cold=Theme

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

The cold would have gone in about a week anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 week	case
7	about	about	ADV	_	9 week	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 week	det
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would · perfect	the cold				week	anyway property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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