Test 10 · Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands

What would be hard to do if your thumb could not touch your fingertips?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thumb · What happens: be, do, not touch · To what, where: fingertips

This is test 10 of lesson 358 «Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands» 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	4 hard	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	cop
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	xcomp
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 touch	mark
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 thumb	nmod:poss
9	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touch	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 touch	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 touch	advmod
12	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 do	advcl
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fingertips	nmod:poss
14	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 touch	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would			hard property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not touch a condition, not said to happen	could	your thumb	your fingertips		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fingertip=Co-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

Bend your elbow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 elbow	nmod:poss
3	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	imperative	you not said here	your elbow					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent elbow=Material

Option 2

Swing your whole arm round in a big circle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swing	swing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 arm	nmod:poss
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 arm	amod
4	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swing	obj
5	round	round	ADV	_	1 Swing	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 circle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 circle	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 circle	amod
9	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	imperative	you not said here	your whole arm		a big circle		round property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme in circle=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Pick up a small coin or hold a pencil well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coin	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coin	amod
5	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pick	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 hold	cc
7	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pencil	det
9	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 hold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	a small coin					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Topic
2	hold	infinitive	you not said here	a pencil				well property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme

Option 4

Stand on one leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 leg	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 leg	nummod
4	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here			one leg			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location

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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