Test 5 · Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands

«banged me elbow, me pinky's tingling, did I break a bone» What is most likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, pinky · What happens: bang, break, be, tingle · To what, where: me, bone

This is test 5 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 banged	punct
2	banged	bang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 banged	obj
4	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 banged	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 banged	punct
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 banged	obj
7	pinky	pinky	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tingling	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 pinky	case
9	tingling	tingling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 banged	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 break	punct
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 break	aux
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 break	nsubj
13	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 banged	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bone	det
15	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 break	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 banged	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 banged	obj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 likely	cop
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 likely	advmod
20	likely	likely	ADV	_	17 What	acl:relcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 banged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bang in a quote	past		me		tree rules
2	break in a quote	past · do-support	I	a bone		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient
3	is	present			likely property	tree rules
4	tingle in a quote		pinky			nom tingling «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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

You hit the nerve called the funny bone; the tingling soon stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nerve	det
4	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obj
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 nerve	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bone	det
7	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bone	amod
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 stops	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tingling	det
11	tingling	tingling	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stops	nsubj
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 stops	advmod
13	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hit	past	You	the nerve		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nerve=Co-Theme
2	call	participle	the nerve not said here	the funny bone		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bone=Recipient
3	stop	present	the tingling		soon property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

The little finger is broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 finger	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 finger	amod
3	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broken	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux:pass
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present · passive		the little finger					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Yes, you snapped the funny bone clean in half and it needs a plaster cast

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 snapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 snapped	nsubj
4	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bone	det
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bone	amod
7	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snapped	obj
8	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bone	amod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 half	case
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 clean	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 needs	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 needs	nsubj
13	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 snapped	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cast	det
15	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cast	compound
16	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past	you	the funny bone					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bone=Theme
2	need	present	bone	a plaster cast					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cast=Theme

Option 4

You hit a vein in the finger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vein	det
4	vein	vein	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 finger	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 finger	det
7	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	You	a vein		the finger			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent vein=Theme in finger=Destination

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