Test 6 · ★ · Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs

«I can wiggle my whole skull, look» What is really moving?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: wiggle, look, move · To what, where: whole skull

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 357 «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» 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	_	4 wiggle	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wiggle	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wiggle	aux
4	wiggle	wiggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 skull	nmod:poss
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 skull	amod
7	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wiggle	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wiggle	conj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 moving	obj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 moving	aux
13	really	really	ADV	_	14 moving	advmod
14	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 look	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wiggle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wiggle in a quote	can	I	my whole skull	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Patient
2	look in a quote	infinitive	I not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	move	present · progressive	I not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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 nose bone

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	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bone	compound
3	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The top of the skull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 top	det
2	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 skull	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 skull	det
5	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 top	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Only the lower jaw; the other skull bones are joined tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 jaw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jaw	det
3	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 jaw	amod
4	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 joined	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bones	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bones	amod
8	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bones	compound
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 joined	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 joined	aux:pass
11	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 jaw	acl:relcl
12	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 joined	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	present · passive	the lower jaw not said here	the other skull bones				tight property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

All 22 skull bones, sliding about on their zigzag seams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bones	det
2	22	22	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 bones	nummod
3	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bones	compound
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sliding	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sliding	punct
6	sliding	slide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 sliding	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 seams	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 seams	nmod:poss
10	zigzag	zigzag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seams	compound
11	seams	seam	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sliding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	gerund	all 22 skull bones			bones's zigzag seams		about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on seam=Trajectory

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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