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title: What would happen if a nurse just jabbed a scared kid with no warnin… — Needles and brave faces · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a nurse just jabbed a scared kid with no warning or explanation? Test 5 of lesson 32 «Needles and brave faces» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 5 · Needles and brave faces

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What would happen if a nurse just jabbed a scared kid with no warning or explanation?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** nurse · **What happens:** happen, jab · **To what, where:** scared kid

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This is test 5 of lesson 32 «Needles and brave faces» of the medicine 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:32-needles-and-brave-faces:t5:1
# text = What would happen if a nurse just jabbed a scared kid with no warning or explanation?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	jabbed	jab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **jab** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a nurse | a scared kid |  |  |  | with no warning or explanation | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent kid=Patient with warning=Instrument |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The child would likely be more scared next time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:32-needles-and-brave-faces:t5:o1:1
# text = The child would likely be more scared next time
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | likely, scared *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The jab would hurt a lot less

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:32-needles-and-brave-faces:t5:o2:1
# text = The jab would hurt a lot less
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jab	jab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | would | the jab | a lot |  |  |  | less *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing different

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:32-needles-and-brave-faces:t5:o3:1
# text = Nothing different
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The child would never be scared of needles ever again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:32-needles-and-brave-faces:t5:o4:1
# text = The child would never be scared of needles ever again
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | would | the child |  |  |  | again | of needles; scared *property* | tree rules |

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**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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