Test 5 · The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin

What would happen if the biceps had no partner muscle?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: biceps · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: partner muscle

This is test 5 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	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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 biceps	det
6	biceps	biceps	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 muscle	det
9	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 muscle	compound
10	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	?	?	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	the biceps	no partner muscle					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=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 arm would grow much stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 arm	det
2	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 stronger	advmod
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the arm					strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The arm would bend both ways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 arm	det
2	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bend	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bend	aux
4	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ways	det
6	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	would	the arm	both ways					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You could bend your arm but not straighten it again by muscle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 bend	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bend	aux
3	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arm	nmod:poss
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bend	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 straighten	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 straighten	advmod
8	straighten	straighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bend	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 straighten	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 straighten	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 muscle	case
12	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 straighten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	could	You	your arm					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent arm=Material
2	not straighten	infinitive	You not said here	arm			again	by muscle	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

You could not bend your arm at all, not even a tiny bit, ever

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 bend	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bend	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bend	advmod
4	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arm	nmod:poss
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bend	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bend	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bit	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 bit	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 bit	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bit	amod
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bend	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ever	punct
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 bit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bend	could	You	your arm		all		a tiny bit obl:unmarked	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme at all=Location

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