Test 2 · The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin

«whacked my funny bone, why's my whole arm buzzing if it's just a bone» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: whole arm, bone · What happens: whack, be, buzz · To what, where: funny bone, whole arm, bone

This is test 2 of lesson 263 «The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 whacked	punct
2	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bone	nmod:poss
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bone	amod
5	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whacked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 arm	punct
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 arm	advmod
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 arm	cop
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arm	nmod:poss
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 arm	amod
11	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bone	appos
12	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 arm	acl
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 bone	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bone	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 bone	cop
16	just	just	ADV	_	18 bone	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bone	det
18	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 buzzing	ccomp
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 bone	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 right	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 right	cop
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bone	acl:relcl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whacked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	whack in a quote	past		my funny bone		vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	is a in a quote	present		my whole arm		tree rules
3	buzz in a quote	gerund	my whole arm not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	bone	a bone		tree rules
5	is	present	a bone		right 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a nerve, not a bone, and squeezing it sends a zing down the arm

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nerve	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nerve	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nerve	det
4	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bone	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 bone	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bone	det
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nerve	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sends	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sends	cc
11	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 sends	csubj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 squeezing	obj
13	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nerve	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 zing	det
15	zing	zing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sends	obj
16	down	down	ADP	_	18 arm	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 arm	det
18	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a nerve and a bone		tree rules
2	squeeze	gerund		bone		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	send	present	squeezing	a zing	down the arm	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zing=Theme

Option 2

The bone is hollow inside and rings like a bell when you hit it hard

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bone	det
2	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hollow	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hollow	cop
4	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 hollow	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rings	cc
7	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hollow	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 bell	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bell	det
10	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rings	obl
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 hit	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 hit	nsubj
13	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hollow	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hit	obj
15	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hit	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the bone		hollow, inside property	tree rules
2	ring	present	the bone not said here		like a bell	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hit	present	you	bone	hard property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 3

The arm bone cracked a little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bone	det
2	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bone	compound
3	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cracked	nsubj
4	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cracked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	the arm bone	a little					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The blood stopped for a second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blood	det
2	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 second	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 second	det
6	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the blood				second		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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