Test 5 · The human body deeper: the heart and blood in amazing numb…

What would happen if your blood had no platelets?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: blood · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: platelets

This is test 5 of lesson 261 «The human body deeper: the heart and blood in amazing numbers» of the biology 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	_	7 had	mark
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 blood	nmod:poss
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 platelets	det
9	platelets	platelet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	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	have a condition, not said to happen	past	your blood	no platelets					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent platelet=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

A small cut would keep bleeding and not make a scab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cut	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cut	amod
3	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 make	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 make	advmod
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 keep	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 scab	det
11	scab	scab	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	would	a small cut		tree rules
2	bleed	gerund	a small cut not said here		vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	not make	infinitive	a small cut not said here	a scab	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset scab=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Your bones would stop making blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bones	nmod:poss
2	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Your bones						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	make	gerund	Your bones not said here	blood					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blood=Product

Option 3

You would not be able to feel your pulse in your wrist or your neck

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 able	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 able	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 able	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	cop
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 feel	mark
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pulse	nmod:poss
9	pulse	pulse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feel	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wrist	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wrist	nmod:poss
12	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feel	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 neck	cc
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 neck	nmod:poss
15	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wrist	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	would	You			able property	tree rules
2	feel	to-infinitive	You not said here	your pulse	your wrist or your neck		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pulse=Theme in wrist=Location
3	pulse		your				nom pulse «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Your blood would turn blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 blood	nmod:poss
2	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	Your blood					blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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