Test 8 · The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin

«strongest muscle's the tongue, everybody knows that» What is a better answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: strongest muscle, everybody · What happens: be, know · To what, where: tongue, better answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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 strongest	punct
2	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 muscle	amod
3	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tongue	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tongue	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tongue	det
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answer	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knows	punct
8	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 knows	nsubj
9	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tongue	acl:relcl
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 knows	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 knows	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 knows	obj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 answer	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 answer	det
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 answer	amod
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	strongest muscle	the tongue	tree rules
2	know in a quote	present	everybody	the tongue	tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present		a better answer	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

No, the strongest muscle is the eyelid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 eyelid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 muscle	det
4	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 muscle	amod
5	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eyelid	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eyelid	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eyelid	det
8	eyelid	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the strongest muscle	the eyelid					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, the tongue lifts the most weight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 lifts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tongue	det
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lifts	nsubj
5	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 weight	det
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 weight	amod
8	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lifts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	present	the tongue	the most weight					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme

Option 3

Yes, the tongue never gets tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tongue	det
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 gets	advmod
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gets	xcomp

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It depends what «strongest» means: the jaw bites hardest, the heart works hardest, the bottom is biggest

The tree, 17 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	2 depends	nsubj
2	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 means	obj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 strongest	punct
5	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 means	nsubj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 strongest	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 depends	ccomp
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 bites	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jaw	det
10	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bites	nsubj
11	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 depends	parataxis
12	hardest	hard	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 bites	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 works	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heart	det
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 works	nsubj
16	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bites	conj
17	hardest	hard	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 works	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 biggest	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bottom	det
20	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 biggest	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 biggest	cop
22	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 depends	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	depend	present	It		tree rules
2	mean	present	strongest		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	bite	present	the jaw	hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	work	present	the heart	hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	the bottom	big property	tree rules

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