Test 3 · ★ · People and society — communities, work, money and rules

Why would a village with no doctors, only farmers, find life hard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: village · What happens: find · To what, where: life

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 58 «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 village	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 village	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 village	det
4	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 doctors	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 doctors	det
7	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 village	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 farmers	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 farmers	advmod
10	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 doctors	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 find	punct
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 village	acl:relcl
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	obj
14	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 find	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 village	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	infinitive	a village with no doctors and farmers not said here	life				hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody would have the skill to treat illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 skill	det
5	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 treat	mark
7	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
8	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 treat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Nobody	the skill					tree rules
2	treat	to-infinitive	the skill not said here	illness					vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent illness=Recipient

Option 2

Farmers do not need food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	Farmers	food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 3

They would have far too much medicine to use up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 much	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 medicine	amod
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 use	mark
9	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 use	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	They	much medicine					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient
2	use up	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Farmers can never get ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	can	Farmers					ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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