Test 5 · ★ · Germs, hygiene and vaccines

If nobody washed their hands, what would most likely happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody, hands · What happens: wash, happen · To what, where: hands

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 37 «Germs, hygiene and vaccines» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 washed	mark
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 washed	nsubj
3	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 washed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 happen	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 happen	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 happen	aux
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 likely	advmod
10	likely	likely	ADV	_	11 happen	advmod
11	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hands	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 washed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past	nobody	their hands					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	happen	would	their hands					likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

People would become stronger and fitter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 become	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fitter	cc
6	fitter	fit	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 stronger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	People					strong property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nothing would change for anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 anyone	case
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing					for anyone	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Germs would die out from loneliness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 die	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 die	aux
3	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 die	compound:prt
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 loneliness	case
6	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	would	Germs			loneliness			vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from loneliness=Causer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

More people would fall ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fall	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	More people					ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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